[mdanger007]

With class curriculums increasingly going digital, our most at risk students are given Chromebooks but are cut off at home because of the 'wasteful' internet. Suppose you're a teacher, already tight on time, and your lowest performing students say they can't get on to Google classroom because their internet was cut off: do you have to create a separate lesson plan or cut Chromebooks out of your lessons entirely?

[akira2501]

Is there some evidence that Chromebooks benefit the student? Or are they purely there to benefit overworked administrators?

[massysett]

There’s no difference: students benefit if school administrators work more efficiently, both because the administrators will do their jobs better, and because the schools will then need fewer administrators.

[akira2501]

> because the administrators will do their jobs better

I do have a bridge to sell you.. if you're interested.

[ndriscoll]

Cut chromebooks out. Unironically, looking over the feature comparison[0], I see no purpose to Google Classroom that couldn't be fulfilled just as well with LibreOffice. Half of it is security features that wouldn't need to exist in the first place without their cloud crap. And most schoolwork should be pencil/paper anyway.

Classroom analytics with BigQuery? "Limit data to the United States or Europe, or distribute globally, with data regions"? The fact that anyone would even put these things sets off incompetence bells for me.

I know when I was still in college a little over 10 years ago and they started introducing these LMS things, literally every single student despised them. They're way more annoying to use than a teacher posting homework on a public web page, and at least at the time, they did a horrible job accepting correct answers that weren't in the precise format they expected, which meant you had to have everyone sit in a room and do the homework together, letting different people try out answers (so as not to use up your finite guesses/lower your grade) until someone figured out what it wanted, and then everyone copied that.

[0] https://edu.google.com/intl/ALL_us/workspace-for-education/e...

[datavirtue]

Chromebook == unnessesary complexity