Notability for chromebook12/3/2022 Well myself and another teacher put together a short survey and I’ll share some of the results with you. In fact the division head in middle school wanted to evaluate the program itself. Chromebooks in 1:1 environmentsĪs I mentioned earlier, this has been a question. These classrooms will not be relinquishing their iPads, the Chromebooks will be added to their classroom’s technology offerings. We had room in the budget and so it was added. These choices give the class flexibility and having more devices can allow more opportunities for these students. If a person wants to type a report, then the Chromebook is the clear choice. If a student wants to record video, than the iPad is the clear choice. When I asked why she said it gives the students choices and increase more technology opportunities for more students. Their thoughts was that they do a lot of work in Google Docs and the addition of a keyboard and trackpad makes working in that environment much easier than a touch screen.Īlso during budget time (October-November) the lower school principal asked if we could have 20 Chromebooks for the third and fourth grade classes. I pressed them for a reason and they had not inquired. The fourth grade team reported back that students choose the Chromebook first before an iPad. The third grade team didn’t really use it too much for whatever reason. She thought it would be a good way to allow students to try them out and to get some authentic feedback. We spoke with the lower school principal and asked if she thought that this would be a good addition to the third and fourth grade team. While clearing out an old IT closet the IT team and myself found 2 older but totally working Acer Chromebooks. When I started this position, Chromebooks was a discussion that came up quite frequently. If you have questions put them in the comments below. This is subsidized by a technology fee that families pay each year. Students keep their iPads through all four years and at the end of the 8th grade we give it to them as their own personal iPad. The older the student, the older the iPad. Depending on the grade level determines which iPad they have. The classes are about 20 students each, give or take 1–2. Each cart has about 22–24 devices respectively.Įach lower school classroom has 7 iPads for student use. We have three MacBook Air carts for teachers in lower school and middle school to check out. They are older (about 5 years old) but still functioning well despite some expected slow downs. We currently have 1 computer lab with about thirty 21.5″ iMacs. * Early childhood (preschool, prekindergarten, kindergarten) We are preschool through grade 8 and are broken into 3 divisions. The school I work for is a small private school that has around 400 students. If someone ever asks you what your school uses or what another school should use – get some information first. Let’s start with some background information. Instead we will go through the process of how we evaluate the effectiveness of our devices and what decisions we make based on data and anecdotal observations. This is not an article that is saying one device over another … period! No, that kind of simplistic thinking usually does not benefit schools. This short series will detail this school’s thinking, surveys, conversations and decisions. I don’t know how many posts I’ve seen that are 3–4 years old and while some of the arguments are still relevant others are not. I thought I would put the year on the title of this post just to give it some search relevance.
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