I don’t know why they are learning it.” He added, “And I don’t know why they can’t ask Google for the answer if the answer is right there.”
Referring to his own children, he said: “I cannot answer for them what they are going to do with the quadratic equation. The director of Google’s education apps group, Jonathan Rochelle, touched on that idea in a speech at an industry conference last year. “Google established itself as a fact in schools.” “Between the fall of 2012 and now, Google went from an interesting possibility to the dominant way that schools around the country” teach students to find information, create documents and turn them in, said Hal Friedlander, former chief information officer for the New York City Department of Education, the nation’s largest school district. Today they account for more than half the mobile devices shipped to schools. And Chromebooks, Google-powered laptops that initially struggled to find a purpose, are now a powerhouse in America’s schools. Today, more than half the nation’s primary- and secondary-school students - more than 30 million children - use Google education apps like Gmail and Docs, the company said.
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And it has outmaneuvered Apple and Microsoft with a powerful combination of low-cost laptops, called Chromebooks, and free classroom apps.
It has directly reached out to educators to test its products - effectively bypassing senior district officials. It has enlisted teachers and administrators to promote Google’s products to other schools. In the space of just five years, Google has helped upend the sales methods companies use to place their products in classrooms.
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