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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t have an issue with using Chromebooks, I have an issue with Chromebooks having so many distractions and not being adequately locked down. If during class a kid could only open one single application I’d be all for it.[/quote]

What vendor do you suggest to replace Google?[/quote]

Chromebooks only run on google.  There is nothing to replace it except a laptop, macbook or tablet, all much more money and less secure.[/quote]

Block. The. Internet.[/quote]

Google is internet based.  Do you not understand what a chromebook is?[/quote]

Could everything be blocked other than a whitelist of sites that are needed? That might work better than individually blocking the distracting sites.[/quote]

I think MCPS and many other school systems are sticking to notion that kids can't be properly educated unless they are able to access most of the internet. This is despite mountains of evidence showing that internet access distracts from learning, and that higher percentages of kids were proficient in math and reading before they gave everyone individual internet-connected devices. Those devices make a lot of people lots of money and are addictive for the teachers as well (isn't it so nice to be able to get a breather while the kids watch a youtube video, plus it's just like reading a book, right?), so parents need to organize and advocate. It isn't easy, that's for sure, but it can work. Without parents' advocacy, teachers would still be teaching kids to guess words from pictures instead of actually teaching them to read.[/quote]

I would say I don’t think kids need to go back to having zero access to the internet, just back to the amount they had ~1995-2012.[/quote]

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