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This is exactly right. I volunteer in an after-school dropin center in a public housing project. Our big drama crises these days come when our kiddos can't reme

This is exactly right. I volunteer in an after-school dropin center in a public housing project. Our big drama crises these days come when our kiddos can't remember their Google for Education (Google Docs) passwords. We had a little grant to buy three ipads. We repurposed it to buy six chromebooks, and things are going very well. It's really sweet, actually, with the managed chromebooks. The kiddos know what they're getting and we don't have so much of the "hey, do your homework before you play games" hassles.

joezydeco 10y ago
Repurposing is something I forgot to mention as well. There are a lot of schools sitting on PCs from the last decade that aren't doing much other than running educational programs written for WindowsXP. gDocs at least lets schools repurpose those machines and make them usable with the current curriculum. And then you have a foot in the door when it comes to the next round of equipment purchases. Yeah, there's iWork on browser now but again, too little too late.