Skip to main content

Posts

Showing posts from November, 2015

Chromebooks ARE NOT a Passing Fad...

It's nice to know that I'm not the only one who thinks that Chromebooks are here to stay. This morning I caught an article by Eric Sheninger on Twitter, and he outlines  6 reasons why Chromebooks have staying power. It's short, to the point and makes loads of sense. At my school, we received three separate shipments of Chromebooks, courtesy of the school board but we decided to put them into the hands of teachers first. We wanted teachers to "muck around" so that they would be more encouraged to integrate the technology into their curriculum. We didn't want access to the be road block. Teachers have been given a Chromebook for the year. The last Tuesday of each month at my school is Tech Tuesday and I plan to use Chromebooks exclusively. Now that our Board has gone Google, I also want to show teachers that the need to use a desktop computer and/or a tradition laptop has gone by the wayside. The strategy, simply put: put it in their hands and model, model,