{"id":44196,"date":"2014-08-06T13:56:27","date_gmt":"2014-08-06T19:56:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/08\/06\/the-evolving-digital-classroom.html"},"modified":"2014-08-06T17:42:53","modified_gmt":"2014-08-06T23:42:53","slug":"the-evolving-digital-classroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/08\/06\/the-evolving-digital-classroom.html","title":{"rendered":"The evolving digital classroom"},"content":{"rendered":"
A lot of schools, especially at higher grade levels, are finding that keyboards are critical. Meaning iPads are being swapped out for … Chromebooks.<\/p>\n

+<\/span>Kay Hill<\/a><\/span>'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. \u00a0In elementary and especially middle school, they had a lot of netbooks (Asus Eee's) for students to use in class.<\/p>\n

For her high school it's BYOD (unless you can't afford it, in which case they have some devices available). \u00a0Either 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.<\/p>\n

As it turns out, we're going the Chromebook route. In fact (glances at Amazon), it should be arriving very shortly …\ufeff<\/p><\/div>\n

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Why Some Schools Are Selling All Their iPads<\/a>
\n Four years after Apple introduced its popular tablet, many districts are switching to laptops.\n <\/p>\n

View this post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A lot of schools, especially at higher grade levels, are finding that keyboards are critical. Meaning iPads are being swapped out for … Chromebooks. +Kay Hill's school district (Littleton Public Schools) has been pretty aggressive about the digital educational experience. 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