Comment on Kids are short-circuiting their school-issued Chromebooks for TikTok clout
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 17 hours agoIs there a better option schools should be buying at a similar price point?
KoalaUnknown@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.works 12 hours ago
Usually, organizations would want to manage all of then from a single interface and keep the devices locked down. Chromebooks usually won’t allow you to tamper with the OS in any way. (not easily, anyways)
I mean, you can’t have kids playing video games on a school-issued laptop in the back of the classroom, right?
Plus, only a large corporation could even provide the device support like repairs and stuff. Unless small companies can manage to provide support for schools around the country (or even the world, depending on how large they want to expand), for the mean time, its seems like Chromebooks have won. 🤷♂️
cubism_pitta@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
I would ask what value chromebooks add to education?
We are not teaching kids to do anything with them other than consume Google and Adobe services.
It’s no better than schools were when I was in school where we used windows and mainly learned to consume Microsoft products.
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 7 hours ago
I’m not entirely sure, but I found having easy access to a computer helped me with school work. I imagine these level the field a bit since perhaps not all kids have easy access to computers otherwise?