Back in 2008 my school were throwing away about 200 workstations, with monitors. We asked if we could buy some, but they told us no; they were being donated to a charity which ships them to Uganda.
I’m hoping these Chromebooks aren’t “recycled” but instead have a similar fate as those desktops from my school. I’m in Indonesia right now and could give away thousands of Chromebooks in a heartbeat.
Eh, how so, you can just install Linux on them last I heard.
Why would you just throw out something you can put an up to date OS on?
Yeah, but you cant expect your average teacher to know how to install or use Linux.
Really they should be selling them on or donating them to people in need?
They don’t need to have the teachers to install Linux (though that’d be welcome to do as part of classes). Just hand them over to a reputable IT that will get them ready and going with a good distro.
Please Teachers are some of the most highly educated dumb people we have During the COVID Remote Learning they didn’t even know what streaming was much less were competent enough to do it Their students know more about streaming and how to broadcast a stream A greatly wasted resource The Smart Board my district has in every classroom are capable and setup for remote learning then sat there unused