{"id":5300,"date":"2015-01-21T17:49:08","date_gmt":"2015-01-21T22:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/?p=5300"},"modified":"2022-06-14T01:26:50","modified_gmt":"2022-06-14T06:26:50","slug":"when-not-to-use-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/when-not-to-use-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"When Not to Use Technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Janice Florent<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Most of us know better than to use technology for technology\u2019s sake...Using technology for practical purpose, and not for the sake of using technology, must be the clear objective.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here are a few suggestions from a post by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opencolleges.edu.au\/informed\/author\/saga\/\">Saga Briggs<\/a>, at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opencolleges.edu.au\/informed\/\">informED<\/a>, for when <strong>NOT<\/strong> to use technology:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>When it undermines deep learning<\/li>\n<li>When it undermines basic learning<\/li>\n<li>When it decreases interaction<\/li>\n<li>When it reduces the chance of failure<\/li>\n<li>When you don\u2019t have time to integrate it<\/li>\n<li>When it doesn\u2019t support connecting and sharing<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can read more about this in Saga's post <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opencolleges.edu.au\/informed\/features\/when-not-to-use-technology-15-things-that-should-stay-simple-in-education\/\">When Not to Use Technology: 15 Things That Should Stay Simple in Education<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Janice Florent Most of us know better than to use technology for technology\u2019s sake...Using technology for practical purpose, and not for the sake of using technology, must be the clear objective. Here are a few suggestions from a post by Saga Briggs, at informED, for when NOT to use technology: When it undermines deep <a href=\"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/when-not-to-use-technology\/\" class=\"more-link\">...continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \"When Not to Use Technology\"<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5300","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-teaching","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry","9":"h-as-article"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p82MQk-1nu","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":16052,"url":"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/12-apps-of-christmas-2020\/","url_meta":{"origin":5300,"position":0},"title":"12 Apps of Christmas 2020","author":"Janice Florent","date":"December 6, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Last year the University of Glasgow's Digital Education Unit identified 12 apps they felt would be useful in teaching and learning for online and distance education. 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