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HSCL Chromebook Deployment
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Best Practices
- Pair work
- Paperless assignment submission, grading, and feedback system
Pedagogical Benefits
Commonly Used Instructional Apps (available in the Chrome Store)
- When combined with GAFE, Chromebooks are a transformative educational technology.
- Increased instructional time.
- Students are able to collaborate on numerous levels.
- Teachers are able to monitor, make real-time adjustments, and provide feedback in ways that wouldn't be so readily possible with other laptop technologies.
Challenges
- Abundance and easy accessibility has encouraged teachers to become more adventurous.
- Not DIIT supported/serviced
- Network dependency
- Network bottlenecks
- Unable to access/install non-browser based applications (Adobe, SketchUp, etc...)
Administrative Benefits
- Flexibility and responsiveness
- Preinstalled apps and ease of app installation
- Ability to blacklisting websites and apps
- Manual software updates are a thing of the past.
- Lost student work is a thing of the past.
- Student work travels with the user account.
- Classroom management - ability to monitor use via Teacher Dashboard Remote Control
- Many apps are free.
- "Capital-light" -
~ 3 Chromebooks: 1 Netbook
Cart Reservation System
Reflections & Moving Forward
The Deployment Process
Our School
Cart Setup
Our goal:
To establish a system that was procedurally transparent to students and teachers.
We wanted to create a system that explained itself.
High School for Community Leadership
Chromebooks can replace the clear majority of typical-use scenarios in the classroom.
Crucial to this goal:
- Jamaica, Queens
1. Conspicuous and "obvious" labeling of Chromebooks and carts.
Cart Names & Chromebook Labels: Humanitarian Leaders
2. Immutable charging bricks/cords.
- ~ 360 students, unscreened
3. Class laptop assignments
4. Cart checkout system
- ~ 30 teachers/staff
Likely not appropriate to replace all other computer platforms with Chrome OS.
And in December 2013, they did!
- No dedicated IT staff
Our relationship to technology in 2012-2013
Chromebooks allow for non-typical use that other platforms can't do as well (collaboration).
- 4 carts with Windows-based netbooks (~100 computers)
- iMacs - 1 or 2 in most classrooms
May 2013 - Adopted GAFE(!!!)
October 2014 - $60K in ARRA funding slated for 70 Lenovo laptops
Chromebooks:
A soup to nuts deployment case study.
- Desmos calculator - graphing calculator
Apply the entirety of our 2013-14 ARRA funding towards Chromebooks when they became available
Our Decision
- Quizlet - vocab builder
- Notable PDF