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Coronavirus Pushes Schools Closer to a Computer for Every Student

How schools are planning to use the influx of digital devices

The San Antonio Independent School District can now put a laptop or tablet in the hands of every one of its almost 50,000 students—reaching a 1-to-1 computing environment years ahead of schedule due to the unprecedented rush to buy new tech brought on by coronavirus school closures.

But Ken Thompson, the district’s chief information technology officer, knows that securing new Chromebooks amid crushing demand from competing districts around the country and then distributing them to students in a rapid-fire process was just the beginning.

At some point in the future, whenever it’s deemed safe for school buildings to reopen, students will be returning those loaner devices. Then, the process starts to transition tens of thousands of brand-new laptops into devices intended to provide a digital boost to learning inside school buildings.

https://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2020/06/03/coronavirus-pushes-schools-closer-to-a-computer.html?cmp=eml-enl-tl-news1-rm&M=59604218&U=2050105&UUID=42d8eaa0e1fd83d2d422f1841ef2e9b9

 

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