The Board has officially agreed to phase out the devices as we requested. This outcome belongs entirely to the hundreds of you who spoke up and refused to settle for less. We need to stay watchful to ensure the transition remains smooth for everyone involved.
August 9, 2018
Final supporters
1) To keep iPads until the current sophomore class has graduated (phasing)
2) To use the present Chromebook order for the elementary schools, rather than switch the high schoolers suddenly
The iPads should be phased out because...
1) The alternative Notability on the Chromebooks (Kami) is NOTORIOUS for crashing and deleting work
2) Teachers have gotten used to the iPad system and have based their lesson plans around the efficiency that is granted on iPads, not Chromebooks.
3)The Board expects us to learn how to use Chromebooks efficiently as we progress to JUNIOR and SENIOR year (the most crucial years). It is difficult to switch devices halfway through high school.
I.e. AP Biology (usually available to Juniors and Seniors) requires a lot of diagram drawing, which is difficult with Kami and its unofficial alternative, Google Draw.
4) Backing up multimedia from iPad is impossible and Notability backups as PDFs take up a lot of storage as we attempt to transition as the year ends
5) Students commonly take pictures when in a rush, or simply for efficiency; however, Chromebooks prove difficult to take and save pictures with, and Kami glitches when trying to edit the said photos
Elementary schools should use Chromebooks rather than iPads because…
1) iPads promote game-playing in class, and provokes a shortened attention span
2) iPad’s touch-screen writing can interfere with their pen-to-paper handwriting skills
3) Chromebooks are the superior electronic, for they can promote typing skills, whereas the keyboard-less iPad cannot
Updates
May 24, 2018
I logged on to see 250 signatures and honestly have no words. This is completely beyond anything I imagined when I hit publish on this. You all are the ones putting in the work to be heard.
Reached 250 supporters
May 23, 2018
Reached 100 supporters
May 23, 2018
101 Comments
It’s so much easier to take notes on Notability and I’ve heard a lot of bad things about the Chromebooks... Also, for concert band, we use iPads to read music and if it’s being replaced with Chromebooks that won’t really work.
Losing my iPad means losing the notes I have from geometry, Algebra II, and Precalculus that I’m going to need for Calculus. Getting rid of them like this is dooming the juniors and seniors for failure. Notability lets students simulate handwriting and retain more information; Kami doesn’t even compare.
I think we should stick to the IPad because kami is crashing and deleting work that we have hardly been working on. Also everyday the chrome books are crashing and we have to wait weeks or even months for them to be fixed.
I, as a freshman, do agree with this as myself and many other freshman dislike the chromebooks and would rather receive the iPads next year, from the current graduating class.
It is scientifically proven that people remember things better if we write our notes (like on notability) instead of typing them. I know for sure from watching freshmen in my choir class that writing on kami is hard and slow especially on chrome books
We should keep our ipads.
Hi! They are actually planning on switching both current sophomores and current juniors to Chromebooks next year! It’s unfair for everyone, and I definitely agree that the switch halfway through high school is completely pointless and makes life harder for next year’s juniors and seniors.
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The Board has officially agreed to phase out the devices as we requested. This outcome belongs entirely to the hundreds of you who spoke up and refused to settle for less. We need to stay watchful to ensure the transition remains smooth for everyone involved.
August 9, 2018
Final supporters
1) To keep iPads until the current sophomore class has graduated (phasing)
2) To use the present Chromebook order for the elementary schools, rather than switch the high schoolers suddenly
The iPads should be phased out because...
1) The alternative Notability on the Chromebooks (Kami) is NOTORIOUS for crashing and deleting work
2) Teachers have gotten used to the iPad system and have based their lesson plans around the efficiency that is granted on iPads, not Chromebooks.
3)The Board expects us to learn how to use Chromebooks efficiently as we progress to JUNIOR and SENIOR year (the most crucial years). It is difficult to switch devices halfway through high school.
I.e. AP Biology (usually available to Juniors and Seniors) requires a lot of diagram drawing, which is difficult with Kami and its unofficial alternative, Google Draw.
4) Backing up multimedia from iPad is impossible and Notability backups as PDFs take up a lot of storage as we attempt to transition as the year ends
5) Students commonly take pictures when in a rush, or simply for efficiency; however, Chromebooks prove difficult to take and save pictures with, and Kami glitches when trying to edit the said photos
Elementary schools should use Chromebooks rather than iPads because…
1) iPads promote game-playing in class, and provokes a shortened attention span
2) iPad’s touch-screen writing can interfere with their pen-to-paper handwriting skills
3) Chromebooks are the superior electronic, for they can promote typing skills, whereas the keyboard-less iPad cannot
Updates
May 24, 2018
I logged on to see 250 signatures and honestly have no words. This is completely beyond anything I imagined when I hit publish on this. You all are the ones putting in the work to be heard.
Reached 250 supporters
May 23, 2018
Reached 100 supporters
May 23, 2018
101 Comments
The freshman complain all the time about how to chrome books break so easily and that they can’t evet get on things because of how slow they are and I don’t think the entire school should have to deal with that. Elementary school kids use the chrome books and we shouldn’t have to it’s not fair
It’s so much easier to take notes on Notability and I’ve heard a lot of bad things about the Chromebooks... Also, for concert band, we use iPads to read music and if it’s being replaced with Chromebooks that won’t really work.
Losing my iPad means losing the notes I have from geometry, Algebra II, and Precalculus that I’m going to need for Calculus. Getting rid of them like this is dooming the juniors and seniors for failure. Notability lets students simulate handwriting and retain more information; Kami doesn’t even compare.
I think we should stick to the IPad because kami is crashing and deleting work that we have hardly been working on. Also everyday the chrome books are crashing and we have to wait weeks or even months for them to be fixed.
I, as a freshman, do agree with this as myself and many other freshman dislike the chromebooks and would rather receive the iPads next year, from the current graduating class.
It is scientifically proven that people remember things better if we write our notes (like on notability) instead of typing them. I know for sure from watching freshmen in my choir class that writing on kami is hard and slow especially on chrome books
We should keep our ipads.
Hi! They are actually planning on switching both current sophomores and current juniors to Chromebooks next year! It’s unfair for everyone, and I definitely agree that the switch halfway through high school is completely pointless and makes life harder for next year’s juniors and seniors.
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The freshman complain all the time about how to chrome books break so easily and that they can’t evet get on things because of how slow they are and I don’t think the entire school should have to deal with that. Elementary school kids use the chrome books and we shouldn’t have to it’s not fair