{"id":23,"date":"2012-02-06T12:14:41","date_gmt":"2012-02-06T20:14:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/katied\/?p=23"},"modified":"2012-02-06T12:14:41","modified_gmt":"2012-02-06T20:14:41","slug":"computers-in-the-classroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/katied\/2012\/02\/06\/computers-in-the-classroom\/","title":{"rendered":"Computers in the classroom"},"content":{"rendered":"

In “Writing In the Wild<\/a>” Bjork and Schwartz discuss how computers in the classroom can change how and what the students write due to their changed locations.\u00a0 They also discuss how sometimes computers can be a hindrance in the classroom, because a typical computer creates a barrier between the student and the teacher.\u00a0 While I agree that the computer does create that physical barrier, I think the real problem with computers in the classroom is that they are a distraction not only to the person who is on it, but those around them.<\/p>\n

When I first started back at SCU, it surprised me how few students used computers in the classrooms.\u00a0 The majority of students used paper and pens for their notes.\u00a0 As I sat behind some of the few students who were using computers in the class, I could not help but notice that they often checked their Facebook accounts, their e-mail, or were working on an assignment in class instead of actually taking notes.\u00a0 In this sense, something that should enhance the classroom, was in reality taking away from the experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In “Writing In the Wild” Bjork and Schwartz discuss how computers in the classroom can change how and what the students write due to their changed locations.\u00a0 They also discuss how sometimes computers can be a hindrance in the classroom, … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"qubely_global_settings":"","qubely_interactions":"","kk_blocks_editor_width":"","_kiokenblocks_attr":"","_kiokenblocks_dimensions":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"gutentor_comment":8,"qubely_featured_image_url":null,"qubely_author":{"display_name":"kdean","author_link":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/katied\/author\/kdean\/"},"qubely_comment":8,"qubely_category":"Uncategorized<\/a>","qubely_excerpt":"In “Writing In the Wild” Bjork and Schwartz discuss how computers in the classroom can change how and what the students write due to their changed locations.\u00a0 They also discuss how sometimes computers can be a hindrance in the classroom, … Continue reading →","post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/katied\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/katied\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/katied\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/katied\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/katied\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/katied\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/katied\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions\/25"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/katied\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/katied\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/katied\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}