24 hours a day and seven days a week, at least during the school year. That's how often students will be accessing their Chromebooks, assuming they get to take the Chromebooks home. Even if they're told to use them for school activities at home, students will wake up at four or stay up until two to finish a project, or they'll check grades at midnight.
What all this means is that the Chromebooks need to be sturdy. And they are, with one exception. The screens are a bit flexible, keeping them light. When a student stumbles out of bed in the middle of the night and grabs the device, will it be grabbed by said cover? Absolutely! Will it drop or hit a desk? Why, yes it will. Will the student take it out of any soft case as soon as it comes home? Yes. All this means the screens will be in danger, 24 hours a day. Check out this assessment of what to do next: get a Cranium Hard Case Chromebook Protector for your Bullit County Chromebooks. When Centralia School District asked for Chromebook proposals, vendors made their best offers. The problem is that vendors cannot teach teachers to use Chromebooks effectively or keep students from destroying them. That takes more consultants and time to get right. Luckily, Centralia can count on Educabana to provide the Cranium hard case cover as mentioned in the above articles.
Carver Public Schools will have Chromebooks, but what happens next is still being considered. How are they insured, protected, used, and stored? Big questions that the school district will ask others for advice. But sometimes others just don't know. For example, many technology directors were not classroom teachers, or taught before Chromebooks were in use. Maybe a teacher who fully implemented Chromebooks in the classroom would be a better source. Also, students will find a way to break anything, and will the insurance or cases be enough? This article talks about a better hard case / white board that adds cheap insurance, but it also discusses why giant soft cases are so lame, and Carver Public Schools do not want these new Chromebooks to seem lame right from the start.
Cambridge-Isanti Schools will have Chromebooks as the Independent School District #911 will purchase Chromebooks. However, will those computers be protected from accidental student mishandling? Generally, Chromebooks are cheap and tough, but the screen is flexible. Read this article to read more about protecting the bendable screens without adding bulk.
Now that Waterloo is implementing Chromebooks in the middle school, complete with cases, it's time to evaluate BOTH the computers and the cases when students begin using them. Chromebooks have proven effective in many school districts, even if the time required to harness the benefits is more than expected.
Another aspect that Chromebook salespeople tend to forget is that kids aren't businessmen. Kids do NOT want to proudly carry a five pound case for a cheap laptop in addition to all other classroom materials. http://passiveninja.com/information/blog/121-chromebook-hard-case-protectors-work-best. You may have read that Chromebooks are being implemented in phases for West Valley students in the next couple of years. However, have you read about how the school district is protecting this investment? Read this article about why soft case covers are not the best answer.
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AuthorBrian Jaeger writes columns for respectable websites all over the kingdom. Archives
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