+Kay Hill's school district (Littleton Public Schools) has been pretty aggressive about the digital educational experience. Kids get district-based Google Drive accounts early in elementary school, and they're used for papers, presentations, etc. In elementary and especially middle school, they had a lot of netbooks (Asus Eee's) for students to use in class.
For her high school it's BYOD (unless you can't afford it, in which case they have some devices available). Either notebooks (OS-agnostic) or netbooks or Chromebooks are encouraged — anything that can hook up to the school's WiFi network. Tablets are deemed okay but the limitations of being without keyboard are highlighted.
As it turns out, we're going the Chromebook route. In fact (glances at Amazon), it should be arriving very shortly …
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