In December, Science Leadership Academy(SLA) in Philadelphia announced that they were changing the devices students would use for their learning from a Macbook to a Dell Chromebook. Social Media was abuzz witht the announcement Today, with great fanfare, they announced the " Center for Excellence in Learning ," a partnership between Dell, SLA and the Franklin Institute to serve as a "resource for best practice for other educators," and "scale their model of inquiry-driven, problem based learning across the country." Initially, the focus for many was on the switch of platforms, from the Macbook to the Chromebook . After all, they have been an award winning, Apple Distinguished School for the past 5 years. Some saw the move to the less expensive, cloud-based Chromebook a "step down," and that they would lose out on powerful applications for creating multimedia presentations, and that principal Chris Lehmann , " sold out " as a cos...
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