Timed Test of Two Technologies

Today the students helped me perform an experiment timing the new equipment against the old. We set up two Chromebooks and scrounged up two of the old laptops. Everything was set up with the black screens. We timed how long it took to go from black screen to Drive. Four students worked at each setting and called out the word Drive when they had successfully accessed their Drive.  The results were amazing:

Chromebook 1 -- 24 seconds
Chromebook 2 -- 28 seconds

Laptop 1 -- 5 minutes, 40 seconds
Laptop 2 -- 10 minutes, 30 seconds

Even if the lowest laptop time to access Drive, 5 minutes, is considered, that would mean 4 1/2 class periods of the 44 days of instructional time to get to the work that needs to be done for the course. Rounding up the Chromebook time to 30 seconds would bring the lost instructional time to 22 minutes.

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