How has Google Helped Our New Reality?

Chromebooks, we all have them. You can either hate them or love them. In the age of technology we live and breathe this stuff everyday. Sometimes it gives us an advantage and sometimes it can slow us down, especially in a virtual schooling experience.

There are good and bad things in the technological world. On one hand, you can decrease the waste or paper, and on the other hand you may become a victim to slow wifi.This school year has started off differently since everyone in the high school now has a chromebook, including the seniors. Now students rely on Google more than ever, especially when it comes to going to class virtually. 

Students such as Katie Casano have been kicked off some Google Meet at times, especially when there’s a lot of people in them. When Katie was in her choir class it connects for a few minutes and then, “the screen starts to go black and people’s faces go away like their cameras are all going black and it just kicks me out. I have to refresh the page to get back in, so I don’t miss anything important”.

This problem can definitely take a strain on the way students are getting information from lectures and day-to-day teaching. AP Language and Composition teacher, Mr. Sturm has already confronted these issues in his classes as it is only the first week of school as “few students encounter issues with their chromebooks in class. One or two have had issues connecting to the wifi and another had an issue with their screen.” 

He also has said that the transition to a hybrid schedule has been, “smoother than he expected”. Due to everyone using the schools internet all across the building.

Google has also helped provide students with easy ways to communicate with teachers while at home, by using our school emails. While also being able to simultaneously work on multiple devices. Students are allowed to work without the use of a pen or paper and just a chromebook. 

With all the good and bad, Google has truly made online schooling and communication a whole lot easier for students, teachers, and parents, but it is definitely not perfect.