{"id":962,"date":"2019-07-10T22:27:14","date_gmt":"2019-07-10T22:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/tlc\/?p=962"},"modified":"2019-07-10T22:28:09","modified_gmt":"2019-07-10T22:28:09","slug":"to-tech-or-not-too-tech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/tlc\/2019\/07\/10\/to-tech-or-not-too-tech\/","title":{"rendered":"To Tech or not too Tech?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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An ADED instructor, Douglas Mauger, sent an in-depth and thought provoking article to our department on how students are distracted by the use of tech in the classroom vs. how instructors see it being used. The article, A Mixed Blessing? Students\u2019 and Instructors\u2019 Perspectives about Off-Task Technology Use in the Academic Classroom<\/a> states that \u201cThere is no consensus on whether or not the introduction of technology into academic classroom brought with it substantial benefits to learning\u201d (Neiterman & Zaza, p. 1). However, the consensus is that the opinions between students and instructors on tech use in the classroom are divided.<\/p>\n

Of course the divide is based on the students feeling \u201cthat it is their choice <\/em>to use the technology, they saw it as the instructors\u2019 responsibility <\/em>to motivate them not to use it.\u201d (p. 10) and that \u201cHumor is always good, if you are laughing, you want to hear more and be more engaged\u201d Instructors, on the other hand, stated that \u201cwe cannot compete with an industry that has billions and billions of dollars\u201d (p. 11) which is in reference to students watching YouTube in class and using SNS. Another instructor agrees that sometimes material is \u201cnot super juicy\u2026. [but] you have to drive through it. That’s the point.\u201d (p. 11). This divide brings us to the real question: \u201cLearning how to focus on the tasks that do not spark a lot of interest in students\u201d (p. 11). But, is this the responsibility of instructors? The article asks, is being able to focus one of those unstated competences that we should be able to facilitate in this education?<\/p>\n

How do you approach technology, or the misuse of technology, in the classroom? Do you feel it\u2019s your job to enforce strict rules to improve your students\u2019 attention spans, such as confiscating them<\/a> when they become a distraction? The article concludes by saying \u201cHaving an open discussion with the students about the use of technology in the class can help both students and instructors to set up joint expectations about the use of technological devices in their course\u201d (p. 13). Or, perhaps this reflects today\u2019s board room meeting and classroom rules have to catch up?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An ADED instructor, Douglas Mauger, sent an in-depth and thought provoking article to our department on how students are distracted by the use of tech in the classroom vs. how instructors see it being used. The article, A Mixed Blessing? Students\u2019 and Instructors\u2019 Perspectives about Off-Task Technology Use in the Academic Classroom states that \u201cThere … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":183,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/tlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/tlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/tlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/tlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/183"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/tlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=962"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/tlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":968,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/tlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962\/revisions\/968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/tlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/tlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/tlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}