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> Every kid at my children's school have a Chromebook.

That's Great. What about every kid in Detroit, Flint, or Chicago?

Solutions need to make sure we don't widen the digital divide.



Chicago is a case study for Chromebooks (literally, on Google's marketing site for Chromebooks). They supply them to students.

Detroit just got a donation of 51,000 chromebooks for students who's families could not afford them.

Flint, Mi issued iPads and Chromebooks to students in August.

Requiring a $120 calculator seems to be more of a digital divide issue than a $200 computer that can be used for every class.


Tons of schools are going to chrome books. In fact digital books are distributed this way and cheaper than physical books.




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