{"id":2371,"date":"2016-02-11T18:22:44","date_gmt":"2016-02-11T23:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2016\/02\/11\/professor-thomas-joins-new-york-times-debate-2\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T14:28:25","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T19:28:25","slug":"professor-thomas-joins-new-york-times-debate-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/professor-thomas-joins-new-york-times-debate-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Thomas joins New York Times debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do social media, interactive whiteboards and other recent innovations benefit students? <em>The New York Times<\/em> asks those questions in its latest Room for Debate discussion, \u201cThe Frontier of Classroom Technology,\u201d and Furman education professor Paul Thomas is one of several writers who were invited to respond.<\/p>\n<p>His piece in the <em>Times<\/em> ultimately led to an interview with a radio station in Seoul, South Korea, where Dr. Thomas discussed the role of technology in the classroom.<\/p>\n<p>In Room for Debate, <em>The Times<\/em> invites knowledgeable outside contributors to discuss news events and other timely issues.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/roomfordebate\/2012\/01\/03\/the-frontier-of-classroom-technology\/a-misguided-use-of-money\"><strong>Read piece by Dr. Thomas, \u201cA Misguided Use of Money\u201d<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do social media, interactive whiteboards and other recent innovations benefit students?\u00a0<em>The New York Times<\/em> asked education professor Paul Thomas to join its Room for Debate discussion on \u201cThe Frontier of Classroom Technology.\u201d That ultimately led to an interview with a radio station in Seoul, South Korea, where Dr. Thomas discussed the role of technology in the classroom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,28,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-education","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}