The Lawndale Elementary School District in California recently made the wise choice of purchasing Chromebooks for students. The Chromebooks will come in handy in the classroom and are excellent devices for helping kids learn. One thing the kids will learn, however, is that Chromebooks have a flexible screen. It's not good if the kids find this out after picking the computer up by the screen, but that won't stop them from trying. If you've never seen a classroom full of kids on laptops, then you might not understand why the devices end up needing to get fixed so often.
While computer labs are archaic, they did provide protection to the computers, housed securely at stations. Kids move around all the time, but in a computer lab, they can't take the devices along for the ride. However, Chromebooks are small and light, so watch them take off. If you're a school board member, parent, teacher, or taxpayer in the Lawndale Elementary School District, you'll want to investigate protection options for the Chromebooks. Read the linked article to find out more about the Cranium Hard Case Chromebook Protector AND White Board. Augusta School District will be ordering Chromebooks this year, but will those Chromebooks also receive the protection needed for when students start to use the devices? While Chromebooks are tough, they are built to be lightweight, which means thin plastic. One place where this can be a problem is in the screen flex. The Cranium Hard Case Chromebook Protector virtually eliminates this problem, costs less than other options, and is way less bulky than large soft cases that can be tossed aside. Every school district that is looking to implement Chromebooks needs to seriously consider getting the right protection for the investment.
If you live in Brown County, Ohio, your schools are about to change for the better. Chromebooks are on the way. The devices work well for students and teachers, as long as someone knows what to do with them. Even if it takes some time to revise curriculum to use the Chromebooks, it won't take the students long to find ways to mistreat the computers. Not on purpose, but it does happen. For added piece of mind, Brown County Schools should look into some kind of hard case cover to protect the somewhat flexible screens, and the Cranium by Educabana is the best we've seen. Plus, it's a white board, perfect for math class.
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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