The timeline for the introduction of Google Chromebooks in our school is almost exactly the same as this project. This project started in September 2017. In October 2017 all of the teachers in Maristas (more than 100) were given a Chromebook.
We are very lucky to have such a modern school. We have a digital whiteboards in every single classroom (90 in total) and there are four computer rooms for the whole school. But the head teachers wanted to take another step. Everybody knows that the use of new technologies is already very important in education and is going to be even more important in the future. During that school year, our teachers received a lot of training on how to use Chromebooks to make the classes more interesting and dynamic for us. Most of us regularly used a computer at home, but we did all our classwork and homework in the traditional way, writing with pen or pencil and notebooks.
Then, last year, the school bought 60 Chromebooks to be used in different classrooms at different times. This was all part of the process of introducing the students to daily use of Chromebooks in class. There are two trolleys with 30 Chromebooks inside and sometimes the teachers took the trolleys into class and gave each student a Chromebook to use for that class. At first we wasted a lot of time logging on, finding the correct websites and putting in the passwords. But slowly we got better.
At the end of the last school year, in June 2019, when
the English students visited us, we all used a Chromebook from the trolley to
how to make a website with Nacho, the school's IT expert. This was just after
we had a talk from the local police about e-safety.
During this school year 2019-2020, which is the final year of the project, all the students in fifth and sixth of primary at Maristas have their own Chromebook. This is part of a project called One to One because every one of the students uses one computer. Those of us who participated in the last two school exchanges with Saint Mary of the Angels are now in 1st and 2nd of ESO. We do not have our own Chromebook, but we use them several times a week in different subjects: Spanish language, maths, science etc. We all have our own Gsuite account and school email address - with a very safe password of course. And we use make documents for Google Drive and sometimes organise our homework on Google Classroom. We have to wait until the next school year 2020-2021 to have our own Chromebook. And in some years, all the students from 4th of Primary to 2nd of Bachillerato, the oldest students in the school, will have one.
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