{"id":349,"date":"2012-07-13T20:58:27","date_gmt":"2012-07-13T20:58:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/technology\/"},"modified":"2012-07-13T20:58:27","modified_gmt":"2012-07-13T20:58:27","slug":"technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/technology\/","title":{"rendered":"Technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Something I don\u2019t get.&#160; This is 2012.&#160; You are teaching students with 1-to-1 computer technology.&#160; Why would you ever not take advantage of it?<\/p>\n<p>Seriously.<\/p>\n<p>I use technology to train my dogs, manage my diabetes, cook, and never have paper on me.&#160; I usually the pieces I have and less rarely have a pen on me.&#160; Usually because some kind sole has given me a \u201cswag\u201d pen.<\/p>\n<p>This is the only issue I have with the Exploring Computer Science program.&#160; I know the people who put it on, and I respect them highly, and I know that they often like to use other technologies than computer technologies.<\/p>\n<p>We had this discussion last year during a PBL workshop I went to put on by TI.&#160; The facilitator of the workshop insisted on using lower levels of technology.<\/p>\n<p>We all agreed that there are different levels of technology:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Paper and Pencil<\/li>\n<li>Chalk and Chalkboard<\/li>\n<li>Overhead and Transparency<\/li>\n<li>Markers and Paper<\/li>\n<li>Computers and all of the tools associated with it<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Now I am very comfortable teaching with computers.&#160; I use Moodle as a classroom and curriculum management tool, and have my students do their work completely electronically.&#160; <\/p>\n<p>Hey, I even had that discussion with one of my colleagues today when we were discussing the curriculum I am developing for the Computer Science Fundamentals jokingly acted as if I was afraid of paper.&#160; And no, I didn\u2019t take the receipt from Starbucks.<\/p>\n<p>I choose deliberately to use technology throughout the course, but will reserve a few lessons from CS Unplugged just in case the power goes out or we get kicked out of the lab.<\/p>\n<p> But hey, if you want to use another technology have it, just don\u2019t expect me to play with you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Something I don\u2019t get.&#160; This is 2012.&#160; You are teaching students with 1-to-1 computer technology.&#160; Why would you ever not take advantage of it? Seriously. I use technology to train my dogs, manage my diabetes, cook, and never have paper on me.&#160; I usually the pieces I have and less rarely have a pen on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}