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Google Owns the Classroom (axios.com)

Posted by msmash on from the Google's-play-in-US dept.

An anonymous reader writes: The NYT's Natasha Singer has a fascinating, provocative look at "How Google Conquered The American Classroom." "[M]ore than half the nation's primary- and secondary-school students -- more than 30 million children -- use Google education apps like Gmail and Docs... Chromebooks, Google-powered laptops that initially struggled to find a purpose... account for more than half the mobile devices shipped to schools."

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  1. In our area, Midwestern US, true by btroy · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Out my way, that is very true. All of my kids were initiated into the Google system since 5th grade. My older kids talked about how slow and terrible the windows PC's were, there are a few left. Then they started getting Chromebooks, complaints gone and for $100 they have a machine dedicated to them and they're pretty fast.

    They charge the machines maybe twice a week and the biggest complaint now is broken buttons, screens.