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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have a 4th grader so we are a year or two into this.

Yes, they can share with anyone in the MCPS organization and collaborate and submit documents with ease.

As far as the student communicating with their mother: I don't think that you can email to or from accounts outside of MCPS so it's likely they were logged in at the same time. This happened to us once when DS was logged in on his Chromebook and left his account open on my computer: I typed a message before logging out and it appeared to ghost-write on his screen at school and it FREAKED HIM OUT. Oops.

Chromebook are...a problem. My child goes about his day with, basically, unfettered access within the constraints MCPS allows, which is a wide berth. Just this week he pulled up a "cool" video webpage that allows him to take video with his camera and record it (like the PhotoBooth app on a Mac) - though his content was just a little silly and not objectionable, this is a really bad idea and I was surprised the teacher was unaware - we told him to not open it or let kids record him unless the teacher makes it part of a project requirement.

I've also seen kids comment on document assignments the teacher posts: like a series of "Hey!" "Hi!" "Yo Yo Yo!" nonsense. They are too young to have access like this. It's troubling to me, and I wish there were a better way. Unfortunately, with 25+ kids and one teacher, Chromebooks are 30% useful and 70% a necessary babysitter. And this is in a class with capable, "gifted," kids who are for the most part using their time in a motivated and academically directed way. 
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I agree the Chromebooks usefulness in classrooms is low, and that they are used for “babysitting” but I strongly disagree that they are necessary babysitters.  Growing up classroom sizes were much bigger (36-55) where I lived, and tech wasn’t needed to babysit students.  The issue issue is the implementation of tech in the classroom and teacher training on how to manage it.  Ditto that in a home setting.[/quote]

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