Learn what to look for when selecting reliable, secure devices for students, teachers, and staff to get the performance and features they need for a range of uses and environments.
Computers for school need to provide the best support for a broad range of ages, grades, and activities. If you are thinking about upgrading a device for you, your students, your teachers, and staff or for general school use, there are a variety of factors to consider that can impact daily learning and teaching, including performance, form factor, connectivity, video and audio capabilities, security and manageability, and cost.
Computers are a primary tool used in education today, enabling myriad concurrent teaching and learning activities. When a device can seamlessly support the varying needs of its user, technology is transparent, but an underperforming device becomes a barrier to successful learning outcomes.
When selecting devices for students, teachers, or staff, start by evaluating the level of performance required for the types of activities they will be doing today and in the future. Purchasing a device is an investment in a student’s education and in a teacher’s capability to deliver meaningful learning experiences. Consider how device use and performance needs may change over time so your device can grow with you.
For students, age and grade level are the main factors that determine what level of performance is needed. Teachers require powerful devices to support the multiple, concurrent, resource-intensive applications they use for teaching, videoconferencing and sharing, lesson planning, grading, and more.
All students and teachers need devices that can support collaborative, video, and content sharing programs used for remote learning access and in the classroom.
Elementary school students will additionally need enough processing power to access and use digital content and educational, touch-based applications and, eventually, basic productivity tools for creating documents and simple presentations.
Middle school students will need increased performance as they use their devices for more-intensive and varied activities, including data analysis, computer programming, or multimedia content creation.
Teachers and high school students need devices that can do all of this and have the processing power for increased multitasking and more-resource-intensive applications, like those required in advanced classes and electives such as engineering, data science, and graphic design or activities such as esports.
In general, when purchasing a new device for students or teachers, the more processing power a device has, the more applications and activities students and teachers can do. This graphic can help you determine what processors are recommended for a range of grades and uses.
Along with your assessment of the types of applications and activities the device will be used for, you should consider how and where computers for school will be used to select a form factor to best meet your needs. Chrome OS devices are also a popular choice for K–12 students and educators, with a wide range of available form factors. All Chrome devices run the Chrome operating system created by Google and can support powerful configurations of memory, storage, and security.
2-in-1 Devices
The engaging, flexible form factor of a 2-in-1 or other convertible device offers multiple benefits for students of varying age. When in tablet mode, a 2-in-1 device enables touch-based, video, and content sharing activities, perfect for younger students. Older students benefit from these features too and, with the addition of a stylus, can use this mode for activities such as creating artwork or for freehand annotations and note taking. 2-in-1s can easily shift to a keyboard-and-mouse operation for more involved tasks, providing students with options for how they engage in different types of learning activities while getting a consistent level of performance.
Reprinted from Intel official website
https://www.intel.cn/content/www/cn/zh/education/right-device/choose-the-right-device-for-education.html