{"id":1568,"date":"2012-04-06T07:10:36","date_gmt":"2012-04-06T12:10:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/?p=1568"},"modified":"2012-04-06T07:10:36","modified_gmt":"2012-04-06T12:10:36","slug":"byte-sized-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/byte-sized-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Byte-Sized #10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The APA and school have spent a lot of money on tech toys (including SMART boards, Netbooks, and even a couple of iPads) and  will debate the merit of further spending. But is technology spending  in schools a worthy investment? A study (of 40 years of studies) out of  Concordia University in Montreal concludes that it has had a &#8220;&#8230;  positive impact on learning and attitude&#8221; and that &#8220;more recent,  sophisticated applications of the technology produce greater positive  gains than older applications.&#8221; Read the <a href=\"http:\/\/r20.rs6.net\/tn.jsp?e=001cqI6S3RsRmYGVZHGJyT20zeTJNKEYdMG_T33Ij8DZZgT_ektFHR87kkI8MMITyFPREtvHGQM3f_fBuegeGkUYGiAu2wJoiM4mEVRU6mNTCC-MMbWamwAIhMJTHjeTo21dyFX1Awl7NJS32AL_ImN0PocC1ka0dPHbSMpGoXemqWtqfjWSYDy_0cH_y45VJezvZRyD-SKbwGHlRQY45CYKCXrmzdc5cWV6rkgFJ7HKlnMBuYXb89_keZ_DAUH2W1uUZY0Zcdk5HrM1Pyn4A6DCA==\" target=\"_blank\">article<\/a> from the Montreal Gazette (2-3 minutes).<\/p>\n<p>Of course, everything should be used to its full potential: <a href=\"http:\/\/r20.rs6.net\/tn.jsp?e=001cqI6S3RsRmZkyafikgSr4E0tQybaCrA5WWcMZZWfUCAM3T8TW49k6jS-QXuLi3rZXHwkQeoXh1uO26SkhvYtfcEZIfejPppUNiXyWI7N4PUbTqGxwbP09A==\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.wimp.com\/dadipad\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The APA and school have spent a lot of money on tech toys (including SMART boards, Netbooks, and even a couple of iPads) and will debate the merit of further spending. But is technology spending in schools a worthy investment? A study (of 40 years of studies) out of Concordia University in Montreal concludes that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[46,59],"class_list":["post-1568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-byte-sized-2","tag-technology-2"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1568"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1569,"href":"https:\/\/allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1568\/revisions\/1569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}