Google Classroom is an amazing instructional tool. There are so many advantages to using “classroom” for assignments and assessments over traditional paper and pencil ones. Your students are already familiar with using Google Drive so the transition from paper to cloud based has been seamless. When the Chromebooks are distributed, your students will be able to hit the proverbial ground running! Have no fear “old schoolers” about the potential death of the pen and paper. Not all instruction and work is geared towards using a virtual/online method. Your students will still need to put pen to paper!
I am including a link to a short youtube clip to give you more information about Google Classroom. Also, please have your students show their Google Classroom assignments to you.
*A note to 4th grade parents:
Your students are still learning Google Drive and the capabilities associated with it. I suspect that they’ll be able to access assignments through Google Classroom within the next week or so.