My kids have been using these Chromebooks. I find it hard to believe that this data has any value for Google, unless they’re really want to collect all the wrong answers to the math curriculum for a 6-10 year olds and the essays about favourite names for pet animals.
The location data is also useless. The kids are at school at school time.
They should just have offered laptops that don’t exchange data outside the school, because it’s frankly worthless to do in the first place.
if your IT guy is especially competent, they could’ve built a locked down linux distro to flash onto the chromebooks. that’s basically all chromeOS is.
Most public schools wouldn’t have the budget to allocate a staff member to create and maintain such a distro. It would also take quite some time to flash to all of the devices.
The management tools built into chromeOS are also mature and very compelling to schools. Most schools don’t see the value of reinventing the wheel when a mostly ok solution that takes no extra effort is already available.
My kids have been using these Chromebooks. I find it hard to believe that this data has any value for Google, unless they’re really want to collect all the wrong answers to the math curriculum for a 6-10 year olds and the essays about favourite names for pet animals. The location data is also useless. The kids are at school at school time.
They should just have offered laptops that don’t exchange data outside the school, because it’s frankly worthless to do in the first place.
if your IT guy is especially competent, they could’ve built a locked down linux distro to flash onto the chromebooks. that’s basically all chromeOS is.
Most public schools wouldn’t have the budget to allocate a staff member to create and maintain such a distro. It would also take quite some time to flash to all of the devices.
The management tools built into chromeOS are also mature and very compelling to schools. Most schools don’t see the value of reinventing the wheel when a mostly ok solution that takes no extra effort is already available.