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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Chromebooks creating future consumers: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/13/technology/google-education-chromebooks-schools.html "Google is helping to drive a philosophical change in public education — prioritizing training children in skills like teamwork and problem-solving while de-emphasizing the teaching of traditional academic knowledge, like math formulas. It puts Google, and the tech economy, at the center of one of the great debates that has raged in American education for more than a century: whether the purpose of public schools is to turn out knowledgeable citizens or skilled workers." "The director of Google’s education apps group, Jonathan Rochelle, touched on that idea in a speech at an industry conference last year. Referring to his own children, he said: “I cannot answer for them what they are going to do with the quadratic equation. I don’t know why they are learning it.” He added, “And I don’t know why they can’t ask Google for the answer if the answer is right there.” "Google makes $30 per device by selling management services for the millions of Chromebooks that ship to schools. But by habituating students to its offerings at a young age, Google obtains something much more valuable." It's only a matter of time before other public school systems in the area embrace this too. The only option is to push back with BOE. [/quote] Thanks for posting. I think it’s very hard to make changes in MCPS. It’s a huge school system![/quote]
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