Internal documents revealed as part of a child safety lawsuit hint at Google’s plan to “onboard kids” into its ecosystem by investing in schools. In this November 2020 presentation, Google writes that getting kids into its ecosystem “leads to brand trust and loyalty over their lifetime,” as reported earlier by NBC News. The heavily-redacted documents, […]
Have had 2 kids experience this I can tell that it’s the opposite, the Chromebook supplied to the school were the bottom of the barrel in terms of cost and performance, the vast majority of UK (primary) schools are in debt and can’t afford better. Which led to the kids actively saying they don’t want a Chromebook as they are rubbish.
Back in the 1980s we had the Computer Literacy project, where the BBC were tasked with finding/commissioning a computer to use as the basis for their programmes. Obviously this was a lucrative contract - the chance to build a computer which would be promoted on the BBC - of all places - and supplied to schools across the UK. The BBC Micro ended up being from a little company called Acorn (you may know them from the ARM processors they invented).
They must have done alright out of it, but it was only the posh kids who actually had one at home. The rest of us had something cheaper, and only used the BBCs at school.
Chromebooks are fake laptops that doesn’t prepare kids for real computer they will encounter in the real world
What it does prepare them for is cloud computing, which is coming sometime soon.
They don’t want to train people for real computers. They want to train them for thin clients that access and rent their centralised infrastructure.
We go to a school with iPads and Chromebooks.
I’ve never once, and I mean this literally, have seen a child using a Chromebook outside of school or anything but direct school work.
This just reeks of this constant “people only use Windows because it’s familiar”. Blaming Linux adoption on everything but the shitty buggy DE with a little “oh God the evil corpo is showing our kids that their hardware is ready to use and they might enjoy it!!!”.
