{"id":1499,"date":"2012-02-01T21:16:09","date_gmt":"2012-02-02T02:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/?p=1499"},"modified":"2012-02-01T21:16:09","modified_gmt":"2012-02-02T02:16:09","slug":"reflections-on-teaching-with-a-tablet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/2012\/02\/01\/reflections-on-teaching-with-a-tablet\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflections on Teaching with a Tablet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Plaza3103.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Plaza3103-640x478.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Teaching with a Tablet in Plaza310\" width=\"640\" height=\"478\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1504\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Plaza3103-640x478.jpg 640w, https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Plaza3103-1024x764.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/center><br \/>\nDuring my four weeks of teaching in January I&#8217;ve been teaching with a tablet: the Asus Transformer Prime.  When I teach I almost always have a digital device (beyond the presentation tool) with me to reference my notes and do all the digital teaching elements like recording marks and interacting with students digitally.<\/p>\n<p>So far I&#8217;ve found my laptop to do all I need it to, but laptops have a limited battery, they can be less than portable and have the visual barrier of a vertical screen.  My phones, specifically my iPhone, is too small to refer to and interact with while teaching.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s my reflections from teaching with a tablet:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I like the form factor &#8211; back to when all I&#8217;d use was paper notes&#8230;. well someone else teaching a class would have.<\/li>\n<li>The portability does allow me to be more engaged with my students both with with my location in the classroom and the removal of the laptop\/monitor barrier.<\/li>\n<li>I can&#8217;t take notes as fast, but the notes I do make just sound less jundgemental than the clicity clack of a keyboard<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the strangest reflection:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>When I refer to my tablet for something I feel like Moses reading a decree from his tablet. I feel as though each fact should be prefaced with &#8220;thou shalt..&#8221;.  Perhaps its the read-only or consumptive not creative nature of the whole tablet form factor that makes my notes read or feel like decrees?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During my four weeks of teaching in January I&#8217;ve been teaching with a tablet: the Asus Transformer Prime. When I teach I almost always have a digital device (beyond the presentation tool) with me to reference my notes and do all the digital teaching elements like recording marks and interacting with students digitally. So far&hellip; <a class=\"continue\" href=\"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/2012\/02\/01\/reflections-on-teaching-with-a-tablet\/\">Continue Reading<span> Reflections on Teaching with a Tablet<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[47,1,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1499"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1499"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1506,"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1499\/revisions\/1506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}