{"id":4861,"date":"2018-01-31T15:34:18","date_gmt":"2018-01-31T22:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2018\/?p=4861"},"modified":"2018-01-31T20:34:47","modified_gmt":"2018-02-01T03:34:47","slug":"equal-contributors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2018\/2018\/01\/31\/equal-contributors\/","title":{"rendered":"Equal Contributors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I am currently finished revising my resume and cover letter, which includes my teaching philosophy. Moreover, it includes my technology philosophy, as there are countless reasons why technology is a key aspect of learning in today\u2019s schools. I found that David Jonassen definition of technology to be similar to my own philosophy, where teachers should focus on being a <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">facilitator of knowledge,<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and the technology helps the educator to specialize individual instruction. Furthermore, I believe technology will allow the learner to be involved in student-centred and project-based learning, which contributes to students to apply problem-solving and critical thinking skills.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As a special education teacher, Technology-Enhanced Learning Experiences (TELEs) should involve scaffolding knowledge for students with diverse needs and the technology is there to help the students complete tasks and bypass an area of difficulty. For instance, assistive technology tools such as <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/4Bp0to8a9Z0\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Read&amp;Write for Google<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> empowers students to be more independent learners without the presence of their teacher and enhances the opportunity to be equal contributors with their peers. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am currently finished revising my resume and cover letter, which includes my teaching philosophy. Moreover, it includes my technology philosophy, as there are countless reasons why technology is a key aspect of learning in today\u2019s schools. I found that David Jonassen definition of technology to be similar to my own philosophy, where teachers should [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50025,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1669401],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-b-design-of-teles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50025"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4861"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4867,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4861\/revisions\/4867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}