Google Chromebook outlawed in Danish public schools
Chromebook pros:<p>- Digital experiences can offer different learning formats which might work better for a subset of kids.<p>Cons:<p>- Having computers in the classroom is a huge distraction, and not a valuable use of time for teachers to have to manage on top of everything else; kids constantly abuse the privilege and goof off instead of paying attention to the lesson.  Teachers can either fail at their job and ignore it, or must constantly monitor and police all the screens <i>while they are teaching</i>.  As if it&#x27;s not already hard enough to manage the class?<p>- Chromebooks are expensive for school districts, they pay large ongoing sums of money to Google for the G-Suite SaaS contracts, too.  They&#x27;re not getting a great deal, districts often don&#x27;t even have the expertise to evaluate if it&#x27;s cost effective or not.<p>- Chromebooks get filthy and gross, with kid sludge and boogers and whatever else.  Who should be tasked with cleaning them?<p>- Chromebooks result in excessive, unnecessary e-waste.  Google offers updates for only a few years before deprecating them.  They only run a web browser, but somehow they must be EOLd after only 5 years?  Ok..<p>How about bringing back the books and chalkboards?  Ill-informed parents would probably freak out and have a meltdown, thinking their kid is getting a second rate education without the stupid Chromebook during school time.<p>We are stuck in the minima of a very local function.  So dumb.<p>This isn&#x27;t the biggest problem though, it&#x27;s the US public education system that created and enables all this, constantly making changes to curriculae and requirements in a non data-driven way.