{"id":8648,"date":"2018-10-15T18:48:19","date_gmt":"2018-10-15T18:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/?p=8648"},"modified":"2018-10-15T18:48:19","modified_gmt":"2018-10-15T18:48:19","slug":"8648","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/2018\/10\/15\/8648\/","title":{"rendered":"WCCO-TV features Professor of Sociology Diane Pike&#8217;s &#8220;tech-free&#8221; classroom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2018\/10\/Screen-Shot-2018-10-15-at-10.29.00-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-8649 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2018\/10\/Screen-Shot-2018-10-15-at-10.29.00-AM-300x173.png\" alt=\"Diane Pike\" width=\"276\" height=\"159\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2018\/10\/Screen-Shot-2018-10-15-at-10.29.00-AM-300x173.png 300w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2018\/10\/Screen-Shot-2018-10-15-at-10.29.00-AM-768x442.png 768w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2018\/10\/Screen-Shot-2018-10-15-at-10.29.00-AM.png 801w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 276px) 100vw, 276px\" \/><\/a>Technology has become a powerful tool for\u00a0many educators. Many agree it makes learning more fun and engaging, while other educators such as Augsburg University Professor of Sociology and\u00a0Department Chair Diane Pike opt for a &#8220;tech free&#8221; classroom. Pike has restricted technology use in her classroom for 10 years now.<\/p>\n<p>My goal is to have you not look at your phone for 70 minutes,&#8221; Pike told\u00a0<a id=\"js_24z\" class=\"profileLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/CBSMinnesota\/?__tn__=K-R&amp;eid=ARDtnPCaFJgG6BQR20ehBaoSNXwgAEQgsXpYRh6Oiadg643FTq35ZDKQ2cu2H-5r9Nn5JTCZRdtqvZe8&amp;fref=mentions&amp;__xts__%5B0%5D=68.ARDi-DXvUjcWM4kMieIvmVr6wU2t8GmuzPXsBsnCUjzF7-zB4nY3lO02wMtEGB6H8KLrNQUh189sxVi7IuOG_Ar42PFpdTvQneS0vpbFeQ2mCyvcRz8EAvVWht-pykqHYe2WTI_Gv0B4Tp9tNcr6SEQye9Lr5vcqRgS-CvZIOH2qKhIgPYmLZtQ\" data-hovercard=\"\/ajax\/hovercard\/page.php?id=85063973824&amp;extragetparams=%7B%22__tn__%22%3A%22%2CdK-R-R%22%2C%22eid%22%3A%22ARDtnPCaFJgG6BQR20ehBaoSNXwgAEQgsXpYRh6Oiadg643FTq35ZDKQ2cu2H-5r9Nn5JTCZRdtqvZe8%22%2C%22fref%22%3A%22mentions%22%7D\" data-hovercard-prefer-more-content-show=\"1\">WCCO-TV<\/a>. \u201cThe research is really clear that being on your phone in class is distracting.&#8221;\u00a0Since implementing\u00a0her tech-free zone, Pike has not had significant issues. She says her small class sizes, around 25 students,\u00a0make it easier to manage.<\/p>\n<div id=\"main-story\" class=\"column-item story\">\n<div class=\"main-story-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"social-buttons\"><a href=\"https:\/\/minnesota.cbslocal.com\/2018\/09\/25\/for-10-years-augsburg-professor-has-been-tech-free-in-classroom\/\">See full article at the\u00a0WCCO-TV website.<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"personality-credits\" class=\"cbs-thumbnail-link aspect-ratio-3-2\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"_3x-2\" data-ft=\"{&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;H&quot;}\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Technology has become a powerful tool for\u00a0many educators. Many agree it makes learning more fun and engaging, while other educators such as Augsburg University Professor of Sociology and\u00a0Department Chair Diane Pike opt for a &#8220;tech free&#8221; classroom. Pike has restricted technology use in her classroom for 10 years now. My goal is to have you &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty","category-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8648"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8658,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8648\/revisions\/8658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}