A Principled Technologies report: Hands-on testing. Real-world results.
Dell™ Chromebook™ 5190 with an Intel® Celeron® processor N3350
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Encode HD Merge Export video (sound) presenta- Invest in academic trackssuccess with the Inteltion videoCeleron processor‑powered Dell Chromebook 5190 A Chromebook™ powered by the Intel® Celeron® processor N3350 could boost student engagement for a supportive learning environment A child’s education is cumulative—experiences now can build the foundation for a successful academic future. To that end, fast Chromebooks could be the gateway to knowledge for a new generation of students. Teachers can fine-tune their lessons using subject-specific apps that keep students eager to explore, engage, and find their passion. The Chromebooks you select for your school or school district should be responsive enough to keep students on task today while setting students on a path that allows them to skillfully navigate their academic careers.
At Principled Technologies, we discovered that the new Dell Chromebook 5190 with Intel Celeron processor N3350 improved upon a Dell Chromebook 11 3180 with Intel Celeron processor N3060 in standard performance tests. We also noted that it was more responsive on popular apps that kids use throughout their K-12 careers. Selecting the faster-performing device now could mean a better experience for students down the road.
Invest in academic success with the fast Intel processor-powered Dell Chromebook 5190 May (Revised) 2018 The following pages describe a fictional scenario in which young students use their Intel processor-powered Chromebooks for classroom projects. Though the story is hypothetical, it’s based on PT facts. For more detailed testing information, see the appendices beginning on page 9.
A principal’s story—How new tech affects classroom learning Jamila Sanders is the principal of a K-8 school in the city. Her school recently upgraded their older devices based on the Intel Celeron processor N3350, and today she’s observing several classrooms to determine how the school’s new Dell Chromebooks are affecting student learning. Read on to see what Jamila and the rest of the faculty thinks about their new Dell Chromebook 5190 devices, powered by the Intel Celeron processor N3350.
Principal Dell Chromebook 5190 Jamila Sanders
Invest in academic success with the fast Intel processor-powered Dell Chromebook 5190 May (Revised) 2018 | 2 24% less time Math and computer science with a EquatIO Insert graph into Chromebook powered by the Intel Rating: 3.5/5 stars1 Google Drawings Users: 1,000,000+1 in EquatIO Celeron processor N3350 A web tool that allows A flurry of meeting requests, complaints, and updates students to input math equations into fields in their await Principal Sanders when she arrives to school—a web browser (such as for use Monday morning tradition. She answers all the messages with Google Docs). Students she can before moving on to the bulk of today’s mission. can either type or handwrite mathematical expressions.1 % For Jamila, today is Technology Day. She’s meeting 19 with teachers and observing classes to see how the less time Code.org school’s tech upgrade initiative affects student learning. Users: 1,800,000+2 In particular, Jamila wants to know if the new Dell Code.org is a nonprofit Create new Chromebooks powered by Intel Celeron processors organization that supports underrepresented students code project N3350 are faster than their old devices powered by the in their quest to learn in Code.org Intel Celeron processor. computer science. Over 1.8 million users have created First on her agenda is a meeting with one of the over 24 million projects with the Code.org web apps.3 computer science teachers, Ms. Lovelace. In her opinion, the new Chromebooks get high marks. She tells Principal Code.org has partnered with 180 of the largest school Sanders that the kids love interacting with the new districts in the U.S. to add % touchscreen devices. computer science to the 23 curriculum. Their courses less time The new Chromebooks have been helpful with speeding are available in over 50 languages, and they’re used up classroom activities, allowing students to work with in over 180 countries.3 graphs and code projects quickly. They’ve also been a Open local huge help for her own work—Ms. Lovelace loves how presentation quickly her presentations load on her Dell Chromebook Explain Everything in Explain Everything powered by the Intel Celeron N3350 processor. Users: 6,000,000+4 Explain Everything is an interactive whiteboard app where teachers and students can collaborate in real time. According to Tech Crunch, the Los Angeles public school district installed it on 70,000 educational tablets. The software can also be found on 50 percent of all educational iPads in the UK.5
Invest in academic success with the fast Intel processor-powered Dell Chromebook 5190 May (Revised) 2018 | 3 1 % less time Faster video exports with WeVideo Render 720p video Dell Chromebooks powered Rating: 4.1/5 stars6 in WeVideo Users: 5,000,000+6 by the Intel Celeron N3350 Featured on tech journalism processor sites such as TechCruch, Wired, CNET, and more, Next on Principal Sanders’ agenda are a few the WeVideo Video Editor % classroom observations, since it’s important enables users to create 22 beautiful videos and sync less time for her to see how the Chromebooks work in edits across different devices. real classrooms. In February 2018, the Video Editor app earned the Render science Jamila heads to Mr. Kurosawa’s video elective distinction of an Android Excellence App.7 report video class, where students are hard at work in Toontastic putting together videos that show off creative storytelling. Jamila looks around and sees lots of colorful videos—even stop-motion animations. Toontastic Rating: 4.5/5 stars8 Stop Motion Studio As the children work, Mr. Kurosawa gives Jamila Users: 500,000+8 Rating: 4.1/5 stars10 a glowing review of the new Chromebooks Users: 1,000,000+10 powered by the Intel Celeron processor N3350. Toontastic is an interactive storytelling studio that Stop Motion Studio allows “All the video projects go by so enables young students to students to create their own create their own adventure stop-motion animations. much faster.” stories, science reports, Common Sense Media gave or anything else they can 9 the app a favorable review, Mr. Kurosawa says that his students are able think of. praising its simplicity and ease of use.11 to export their videos faster, which makes the export-and-revise cycle seem less daunting. It’s also improved class focus—faster render times have led to less boredom and fewer opportunities for kids to get distracted and off-topic, though it hasn’t gotten rid of % % them completely. 23 21 less time less time “Kids are still kids, after all,” Mr. Kurosawa says with a smile, just as a few of his students Render stop-motion Render stop-motion video get out of their seats to chat and gawk at one in Stop Motion Studio another’s work. video as GIF in Stop Motion Studio
Invest in academic success with the fast Intel processor-powered Dell Chromebook 5190 May (Revised) 2018 | 4 19% less time Collaborative music with Flat Merge tracks Chromebooks powered by the Rating: 4/5 stars11 in Soundtrap Users: 115,000+11 Intel Celeron processor N3350 Flat is a collaborative online Principal Sanders passes by the band room on her way to her music notation app that lets next scheduled observation, but she stops when she sees the students write music together. Flat is compliant with the % kids are working on their computers instead of instruments. Children’s Online Privacy 14 Protection Act (COPPA) and less time The music teacher, Dr. Joplin, is out sick. Because the the Family Educational Rights 12 substitute isn’t familiar with the student repertoire, he and Privacy Act (FERPA). It is also fully integrated with decided to check out a cart of Chromebooks and introduce Google Classroom apps.13 Create new the kids to the world of music composition. All around the piano scores room, kids are collaborating on digital bars of black and in Flat white. Some are even working on wholly electronic creations. Soundtrap® Jamila wishes these technologies had been around when she Rating: 4.1/5 stars14 was a child. Maybe she would have stuck with music longer Users: 100,000+14 % if she’d been able to interact and collaborate as the kids are 31 Soundtrap is a web application less time doing now. for creating digital audio creations such as music, Jamila only stays a few minutes before quietly slipping podcasts, language studies, and more. According to out the door. It’s apparent that the Intel Celeron N3350 Export music Soundtrap, more than 10,000 as .WAV processor-powered Dell Chromebooks are helping kids in teachers worldwide trust their in Flat unexpected ways. educational program.15
Invest in academic success with the fast Intel processor-powered Dell Chromebook 5190 May (Revised) 2018 | 5 21% less time BlocksCAD Faster, more interactive 3D BlocksCAD is a 3D modeling program aimed at young modeling with a Chromebook Create new design students of design, in Tinkercad computer science, and visual powered by the Intel Celeron mathematics. BlocksCAD also offers an Education program N3350 processor that allows teachers to create classes, manage student Last on Jamila’s classroom tour is Mrs. Hadid’s accounts, and more.16 CAD class—computer-assisted design. Here, students are working with 3D modeling, % expanding their minds with yet another subject 10 Jamila could only have dreamed of as a child. less time LEGO blocks must have inspired scores of Tinkercad architects, designers, and inventors. Maybe Open House model Rating: 3.6/5 stars17 there are a few in this little classroom too. in Tinkercad Users: 380,000+17 Mrs. Hadid has only great things to say Tinkercad is a browser-based about her class’ experience with the new program for computer-aided design. Common Sense Chromebooks. The responsive touchscreen has Media gave Tinkercad a 4/5- been instrumental in helping kids grasp the star rating, praising the app’s spatial reasoning required for designing in three pedagogical implications.18 % dimensions. Students find their projects load, 27 convert, and render faster than before, helping less time to streamline the first part of class. Convert model to Bricks 3D editor in Tinkercad