{"id":1278,"date":"2011-12-26T13:34:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-26T19:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tameri.com\/wordpress\/poetponders\/?p=1278"},"modified":"2023-11-26T12:55:46","modified_gmt":"2023-11-26T18:55:46","slug":"ask-slashdot-is-e-learning-a-viable-option-slashdot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tameri.com\/csw\/2011\/12\/26\/ask-slashdot-is-e-learning-a-viable-option-slashdot\/","title":{"rendered":"Ask Slashdot: Is E-Learning a Viable Option? &#8211; Slashdot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over on Slashdot, the following question has 165 comments in under ten hours:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ask.slashdot.org\/story\/11\/12\/26\/156244\/ask-slashdot-is-e-learning-a-viable-option\">Ask Slashdot: Is E-Learning a Viable Option? &#8211; Slashdot<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Once again, we should remind ourselves that technology and other materials depend on the teacher&#8217;s ability to use those tools wisely. Technology alone is never a panacea. Also, technology does come with its issues.<\/p>\n<p>Students working online, either at home or in class, can and do get distracted. We all do. It&#8217;s hard for me not to skip over to check the latest headlines or skim science news RSS feeds. Do you really expect students to be disciplined?<\/p>\n<p>Technology, used wisely, offers amazing new potentials. But, I&#8217;ve seen what happens when a teacher doesn&#8217;t realize Twitter and Facebook have become the favorite topics of the class period.<\/p>\n<p>Ideally, we teach students to focus. That might be with a book or with an iPad, but focus matters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over on Slashdot, the following question has 165 comments in under ten hours: Ask Slashdot: Is E-Learning a Viable Option? &#8211; Slashdot Once again, we&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tameri.com\/csw\/2011\/12\/26\/ask-slashdot-is-e-learning-a-viable-option-slashdot\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ask Slashdot: Is E-Learning a Viable Option? &#8211; Slashdot<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1875,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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,"iawp_total_views":6,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[388,436,492,514,526],"class_list":["post-1278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-student","tag-online-education","tag-programming","tag-slashdot","tag-students","tag-teaching","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tameri.com\/csw\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/12\/FB_Banner_Pen_Mac.png?fit=1200%2C630&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pfiw78-kC","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tameri.com\/csw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tameri.com\/csw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tameri.com\/csw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tameri.com\/csw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tameri.com\/csw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1278"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tameri.com\/csw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1676,"href":"https:\/\/www.tameri.com\/csw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1278\/revisions\/1676"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tameri.com\/csw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tameri.com\/csw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tameri.com\/csw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tameri.com\/csw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}