Google Classroom - google/edu/classroom/ If you watch the first video, it starts with an ominous declaration by one of the teachers, If I can get a student to do an assignment at night, Im not out of time with them. This programming is essentially how AKQA gets half its people to work after 7pm (seriously - half). Kids have so much homework today. We all want the best for them, but 8 hours is enough. But that isnt why I posted this. Developers, check out the second video on the page above. Its on YouTube here: https://youtube/watch?v=K26iyyQMp_g The interesting thing for me in this video is that clearly Google has chosen benefiting the classroom (something few could argue against) as a way to explore building workflow solutions around Google properties - like Docs, and Calendar, and Form. This is really brilliant. The pieces (at least as shown in the video) just flow together. And the implications for Chrome and Chromebooks is huge. If teachers and students get used to working within these workflows all the student would need to use it is a Chromebook and wifi. Youll have schools putting in wifi and buying $200 Chromebooks rather for every student. I dont know about Googles master plan, but Ive long been a fan that the way to teach people to be good at computers is not to teach them about computers but to use the computer to accomplish something useful. My demographic (and just slightly older, say +20) are HORRIBLE at tech. But if one of them gets into photography, or stocks, or whatever, you see them start to embrace the technology. FB is a success with that crowd because of grandkids, not because of friends-of-friend. Developers should really take a close look at what Google is doing here. From a workflow perspective its amazing.
Posted on: Fri, 19 Sep 2014 21:49:16 +0000
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