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My kids are in college now, so they went to high school recently. The school subscribed to Google Classroom, and students used Google Docs to work on assignment
by analog31 4y ago
My kids are in college now, so they went to high school recently. The school subscribed to Google Classroom, and students used Google Docs to work on assignments, often collaboratively. There was no systematic training, and no use of features beyond basic text editing.
Nobody uses Google Classroom after they finish school, and most people can quickly adapt to any text editor. They already use multiple text editors if they interact with any online software. There's no use for fancy page formatting of documents that will be read once and never printed.
If anything, Google and Microsoft tools have the advantage of being general purpose, even if they are closed source. This liberates students from "educational" software that is almost universally abysmal. Subjects like math were still being taught in relatively traditional ways, e.g., by pencil and paper.
My main gripe was that you couldn't put Python on the school issued Chromebooks.