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Remember when, as a school-aged child, you went back and forth to school every day with a heavy backpack loaded with multiple textbooks and the all-important Trapper Keeper? Times sure have changed. These days, more and more schoolwork is completed online with the aid of Chromebook laptops both in and out of the classroom. Textbooks can be accessed electronically via apps on a tablet, virtually eliminating the need for lugging heavy books around. Best of all, thanks to cloud-based platf …

School sure has changed since we were kids. One of the biggest differences between today’s students and those of generations past is their near-universal access to computers throughout their school day. Where Gen X or millennial students were lucky to log an hour or two per week of typing instruction or Oregon Trail gameplay in their communal computer lab, today’s generation of K-12 students are increasingly getting access to their own Chromebook laptop for all-day classroom use, thanks to a …