{"id":195,"date":"2011-04-06T11:12:47","date_gmt":"2011-04-06T00:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theoldgeezers.photos\/?p=195"},"modified":"2012-07-12T15:01:32","modified_gmt":"2012-07-12T04:01:32","slug":"moving-away-from-printed-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoldgeezers.photos\/?p=195","title":{"rendered":"Moving away from printed books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Disregarding all the usual issues with publishers dragging the chain on making their school text books available in various soft copies&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>We often find introducing a different option is a slow process &#8211; a bit like introducing Broccoli to kids.\u00a0 This article reifies for me some of the issues I bump into.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/deangroom.amplify.com\/2011\/04\/04\/what-students-want\/\">http:\/\/deangroom.amplify.com\/2011\/04\/04\/what-students-want\/<\/a>\u200e<\/p>\n<p>It explains a little why kids think the way they do.\u200e The myth of digital native is long proven to be nonsense.\u200e Their outlook is determined directly by those who show them the possibilities.\u200e Our influence as teachers \u2013 even as supposed digital migrants is huge.\u200e They will take their lead (sometimes unconsciously) from how we model things.\u200e Our reliance on text books will influence them.\u200e Our limited use of ICT will limit them.\u200e Our extensive use and \u2018have a try\u2019 approach gives them a belief that there are alternative ways, new \u200eways options and even if we try and fail, it\u2019s a good thing.<\/p>\n<p>We are where they find things out.\u200e I wonder if the idea that alpha males taking to e-book formats more readily than girls is because \u200eteachers consciously or otherwise treat them differently.\u200e There\u2019s a PhD in there somewhere&#8230;\u200e<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Disregarding all the usual issues with publishers dragging the chain on making their school text books available in various soft copies&#8230; We often find introducing a different option is a slow process &#8211; a bit like introducing Broccoli to kids.\u00a0 This article reifies for me some of the issues I bump into. http:\/\/deangroom.amplify.com\/2011\/04\/04\/what-students-want\/\u200e It explains [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,16,3],"tags":[19,45,46,43],"class_list":["post-195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-classroom","category-education-2","category-general-ramblings","tag-classroom-2","tag-ebook","tag-print","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoldgeezers.photos\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoldgeezers.photos\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoldgeezers.photos\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoldgeezers.photos\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoldgeezers.photos\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=195"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/theoldgeezers.photos\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":225,"href":"https:\/\/theoldgeezers.photos\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions\/225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoldgeezers.photos\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoldgeezers.photos\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoldgeezers.photos\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}