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References: Purchasing and Configuring Club Devices

  1. Chromebook - Wikipedia - History and design of ChromeOS laptops, including their education-focused management features, the device category this chapter compares against Windows and macOS laptops.

  2. Parental controls - Wikipedia - Overview of the tools operating systems and apps provide to limit and monitor a child's device use, the background for this chapter's parental-control-software section.

  3. Content-control software - Wikipedia - Explains how filtering software blocks inappropriate content, the technology behind this chapter's content-filtering-software section.

  4. The Art of Screen Time: How Your Family Can Balance Digital Media and Real Life - Anya Kamenetz - PublicAffairs - Kamenetz is credited with distilling the research on children's screen time into practical, balanced guidance, the reasoning behind this chapter's screen-time-management and parental-control-software sections.

  5. iGen: Why Today's Super-Connected Kids Are Growing Up Less Rebellious, More Tolerant, Less Happy—and Completely Unprepared for Adulthood - Jean M. Twenge - Atria Books - Twenge's research on how constant device access affects children is widely cited in school and afterschool-program device-policy discussions, informing this chapter's content-filtering and parental-control guidance.

  6. Learn About Chromebooks for Schools - Google for Education - Describes Chromebook management, accessibility, and Google Workspace for Education integration, directly supporting this chapter's Chromebook-management section.

  7. Parents' Ultimate Guide to Parental Controls - Common Sense Media - A comprehensive comparison of content-filtering, screen-time, and monitoring tools across platforms, directly supporting this chapter's parental-control-software section.

  8. Digital Citizenship Curriculum - Common Sense Education - Free lessons on responsible technology use, relevant to this chapter's password-management-for-kids and device-security-policy sections.

  9. Create Forms - Google Docs Editors Help - The same free tool this book recommends for a device loaner agreement or device-labeling tracking sheet a club can build without paid software.

  10. Free Equipment Inventory Templates & Spreadsheets - Smartsheet - Ready-to-use spreadsheet templates for tracking device assignment and condition, supporting this chapter's device-inventory-tracking and device-labeling-system sections.