| ▲ | frevib 2 hours ago |
| Please not the schools. We don’t need privacy-invading closed systems with built-in slot machines. We need deterministic open systems where kids’ privacy is protected. Please not schools… |
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| ▲ | throwfish3000 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Chromebooks that run on Google services are already the default 1:1 device in schools. They're cheap, they take a beating and have good battery life. |
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| ▲ | frevib 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Same here. They’re subsidized by taking kids’ privacy. | | |
| ▲ | dormento an hour ago | parent [-] | | And normalizing google's model of computing, surveillance, locked down platforms etc... |
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| ▲ | dpoloncsak 41 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | I'd assume this opens up 'Googlebooks' to compete with the GPU/M Series Premium laptops so schools can provide them to teach things like Photoshop, Illustrator, CAD Design, anything that chromebooks couldn't do, right? | |
| ▲ | PaulHoule 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | The performance of the machine offered at schools seems to get just a little worse every year too... like one of these days they won't have to worry about kids playing Krunker in class because they won't be able to. | |
| ▲ | Brainspackle 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | My kids schools all use ipads | |
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| ▲ | 7734128 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | It would be so much better for the student's IT proficiencies if the were some ordinary Linux computers instead. Preferably with limited central managment. The Chromebooks are probably cheaper than the hardware itself could be, but that's a good demonstration of the issue. | | |
| ▲ | afavour 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | It wouldn’t. The central management of Chromebook is what makes the whole system usable. All you’d be doing is sentencing school IT folks to endless, endless support requests. | |
| ▲ | jakeydus 24 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Sorry, I love Linux, but could you imagine managing a fleet of the cheapest hardware possible and also teaching a bunch of 6th graders how to use Linux? School IT workers are already heroes. I don't like Google, but they're a necessary evil to keep those guys from tearing their hair out every day unless we dedicate significantly more resources to computing in schools. | |
| ▲ | sowbug 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Who would run the cloud side, or at least the networked backup service? |
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| ▲ | bko 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| > We need deterministic open systems where kids’ privacy is protected I don't think we need any computers really. They'll be inundated with computers and technology their whole lives. They'll figure it out. Just keep this tech out of the classroom altogether. We've had computers in the classroom for over a decade now, scores and learning has not gone up. It's a failed experiment. |
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| ▲ | davedx an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | Why are you opposed to using personal computers for education? | | |
| ▲ | JumpCrisscross an hour ago | parent [-] | | > Why are you opposed to using personal computers for education? They'll have computers at home. And the evidence seems to point in one direction: the more exposure kids have to devices, the more stunted their development tends to be. Add to that the class division, where rich kids are increasingly raised with strictly-policed device exposure, while poor kids' classrooms are littered with iPads and Chrombooks, and I think we can start making blanket statements. |
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| ▲ | afavour 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | I don’t think we need math really. They’ll be inundated with math and arithmetic their whole lives. They’ll figure it out. Just keep math out of the classroom altogether. | |
| ▲ | kostarelo 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | More montessori-style please. |
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| ▲ | colinrand 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I could not agree more. We need less tech in classrooms, not more. |
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| ▲ | andai 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| >deterministic open systems FreeBSD? |
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