{"id":760,"date":"2015-02-09T13:00:44","date_gmt":"2015-02-09T18:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.benschersten.com\/blog\/?p=760"},"modified":"2015-02-09T13:00:44","modified_gmt":"2015-02-09T18:00:44","slug":"looking-for-11-success-you-need-ubiquity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benschersten.com\/blog\/2015\/02\/looking-for-11-success-you-need-ubiquity\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking for 1:1 Success? You Need Ubiquity!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  wp-image-240 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.benschersten.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/ipad_paper-249x300.jpg\" alt=\"ipad_paper\" width=\"176\" height=\"210\" \/>There are lots of things that will make a 1:1 environment (iPads, Chromebooks, laptops,\u00a0BYOD,\u00a0etc.) successful, but without <em>ubiquity<\/em> you won&#8217;t find success. If you&#8217;re going to go 1:1 technology can&#8217;t be an extra thing, it has to permeate everything.<\/p>\n<p>Think about it like this, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.benschersten.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/the-ipad-is-a-tool-its-not-the-entire-toolbox\/\">the iPad is an educational tool<\/a>. You wouldn&#8217;t hide your constructions paper or scissors or makers away and only get them out for special projects (I hope). If you do, that Social Studies project starts to become a construction paper and scissors project; the project becomes about the tool not the content.<\/p>\n<p>The same is true for technology. If you keep it away and only get it out for a limited number of specific\u00a0activities, that Science project starts to become a technology project.<\/p>\n<p>If you want students to use technology effectively they need lots of practice. If they&#8217;re working in a content area you want them focusing their energy on the content, not how to use the tool (technology).<\/p>\n<p>Sure, there are times when you want to unplug. I&#8217;m not suggesting that we go all-technology all-the-time, but if you want success the tool needs to be available as much as possible &#8211; like all their other school supplies\/tools (construction paper, scissors, markers).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are lots of things that will make a 1:1 environment (iPads, Chromebooks, laptops,\u00a0BYOD,\u00a0etc.) successful, but without ubiquity you won&#8217;t find success. If you&#8217;re going to go 1:1 technology can&#8217;t be an extra thing, it has to permeate everything. Think &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benschersten.com\/blog\/2015\/02\/looking-for-11-success-you-need-ubiquity\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14,6,8,15,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bpschat","category-edchat","category-edtech","category-ettipad","category-ipaded"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2B5HK-cg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benschersten.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benschersten.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benschersten.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benschersten.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benschersten.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=760"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.benschersten.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":771,"href":"https:\/\/www.benschersten.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760\/revisions\/771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benschersten.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benschersten.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benschersten.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}