Google says more than 500 districts in US and Europe use Chromebooks actively

Élyse Betters | Jun 25 2012 - 12:42 pm PT

Google just revealed over 500 school districts in the United States and Europe use Chromebooks on a regular basis, while also naming a few new districts to adopt the technology in both North Carolina and Wisconsin.

In a post on the Official Google Blog, which is appropriately titled “In schools, all you need is web,” Google talked about the functionality of Chromebooks coupled with Google Apps and educational apps available on the Chrome Web Store. The company clearly wants the world to know its marketplace and lineup of notebooks are ideal for teaching, learning, and exploring the Web.

“There are tens of thousands of apps in the Chrome Web Store, and today we’re adding some new ones: ST Math, VoiceThread and Acheive3000,” wrote Chromebooks for Education Product Manager Vidya Nagarajan. “To give you an idea of what’s possible on the web: Leyden High School District from Illinois is rolling out Chromebooks to their 3,500 students and are using apps like WeVideo,EasyBib, Vernier Labquest2, SlideRocket, Geogebra and Pearson’s OpenClass as part of their 1-to-1 learning initiative.”

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New Chromebooks launched last month with a fresh interface and pricing for schools. Google is pushing its line of cloud-based laptops in education, because the tailored computers now meet hardware and operating system guidelines determined by the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortia and the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers.

Google is not slowing the pace, though. It will unveil new web apps for students and administrators today at the International Society for Technology in Education conference.

“We’ve enjoyed being a part of ISTE the past several years, and always look forward to hearing about new ways that students and teachers are using the web to do amazing things,” Nagarajan concluded.

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