{"id":2976,"date":"2025-03-26T13:04:40","date_gmt":"2025-03-26T17:04:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/66-228-46-199.ip.linodeusercontent.com\/?p=2976"},"modified":"2025-03-26T13:04:41","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T17:04:41","slug":"technology-in-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vote.matera.us\/?p=2976","title":{"rendered":"Technology in Education"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This was a really insightful article around the rapid embracing of educational technology brought about during the Pandemic. One interesting thing worth noting is that while declines in test scores intensified during the lockdowns, the author of this article also shows that this decline started before the lockdowns, in fact after 2012. What happened around 2012 \u2026 \u201cthe sudden appearance of a laptop or tablet on every student\u2019s desk.\u201d I\u2019m consistently amazed when my student brings home a worksheet vs a form based lesson on Google Classroom.   While I think technology is wonderful and should be embraced especially in schools, it\u2019s also critical that there\u2019s a balance between paper based and computer based education. I\u2019m not certain we\u2019ve found that balance yet and so I\u2019m happy to come across more articles and evidence around the challenges faced with technology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.afterbabel.com\/p\/edtech-tragedy\">https:\/\/www.afterbabel.com\/p\/edtech-tragedy<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was a really insightful article around the rapid embracing of educational technology brought about during the Pandemic. One interesting thing worth noting is that while declines in test scores [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2977,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vote.matera.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vote.matera.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vote.matera.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vote.matera.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vote.matera.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2976"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vote.matera.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2978,"href":"https:\/\/vote.matera.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2976\/revisions\/2978"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vote.matera.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vote.matera.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vote.matera.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vote.matera.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}