Chromebooks and AT Over the summer, an assistive technology specialist in a Nova Scotia school district wrote to one of my colleagues, “The IT department just dropped a Chromebook into my lap… What do I do with these things?” Her school district had not just gone GAFE (Google Apps for Education), but got laptops that ran the Google-dedicated, cloud-powered operating system known as Chromebooks. If you’re not familiar with them, Chromebooks are computer resource thrifty, and thus cheap, laptops that run Google’s Chrome operating system. Most of what a Chromebook does is powered by apps in the cloud. They’re not completely thin […]
