{"id":2335,"date":"2012-11-17T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-17T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/?e=2335"},"modified":"2021-06-26T20:25:47","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T19:25:47","slug":"easy-as-facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/easy-as-facebook\/","title":{"rendered":"Easy as Facebook?"},"content":{"rendered":"<br \/>\n<blockquote>\n<p>We need to invest in training and peer assistance. Teachers are insanely overworked: no other industry would stand for it. And teacher CPD \u2013 especially around technology \u2013 is poor. <em>More recently there\u2019s been a fashion to say that learning technologies should be as easy to use as Facebook which is ridiculous. Most people were introduced to Facebook by family, a friend, or a colleague. They forget the learning curve and the constant re-learning they have to do when the interface and controls change<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/dougbelshaw.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/17\/some-thoughts-on-learning-technologies-in-the-classroom\/\">Some thoughts on learning technologies in the classroom | Doug Belshaw&#8217;s blog<\/a>, <em>my emphasis<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p>One of the reasons people, Teachers included, think learning Facebook is easy is because they are focused on a goal that they really want to achieve. I found minecraft a bit to difficult for me probably because I didn&#8217;t want it enough and didn&#8217;t fell the outcome would be useful or particularly enjoyable. <\/p>\n<p>Lots of other interesting ideas in <a href=\"http:\/\/dougbelshaw.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/17\/some-thoughts-on-learning-technologies-in-the-classroom\">Doug&#8217;s post<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We need to invest in training and peer assistance. Teachers are insanely overworked: no other industry would stand for it. And teacher CPD \u2013 especially around technology \u2013 is poor. More recently there\u2019s been a fashion to say that learning technologies should be as easy to use as Facebook which is ridiculous. Most people were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"mf2_syndication":[],"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"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,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"post_format":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2335","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-wwwd","7":"kind-article","9":"h-entry","10":"hentry"},"better_featured_image":null,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p57zFQ-BF","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2335"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14961,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2335\/revisions\/14961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2335"},{"taxonomy":"post_format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_format?post=2335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}