• cubism_pitta@lemmy.world
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      1 hour 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.

      • throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.works
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        5 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. 🤷‍♂️