Asus has announced a successful collaboration with Al Dhafra Private Schools, featuring Asus Chromebook Flip C214, a 11.6-inch convertible laptop that best suits schoolers’ needs. “The Chromebook C214 is well protected with spill resistant keyboard highlighted,” Mr. Ziyad H Ashour, the ICT Head at Al Dhafra Schools mentioned. Asus’ innovation allows teachers to harness the power of the products to engage students across a diversity of topics. Ranging from computers and tablets to projectors and monitors, Asus has designed a portfolio of products for both students and education professionals to scale up as the technology advances, while always keeping the products easy for students to use.
K12 education
Learning environment in K12 education has changed to prepare students for embracing the ever-evolving data-driven world. The expectation of students nowadays is to have information at their fingertips across multiple devices anytime, anywhere.
Asus Education comprehensive product range provides the tools needed for teaching or learning, ensuring that no one is left behind. Asus categorize their DNA into four distinct areas, which are catering for students from kindergarten to higher education, offering essential features for efficient learning, providing reliability in the classroom environment, and considering the needs of IT staff with easy-maintenance designs.
Partnership with Al Dhafra Private School
Al Dhafra Private Schools is a high performing K-12 American Curriculum school, situated in the city of Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. The collaboration with Al Dhafra Private Schools aims to help students, educators and IT administrators embrace new and emerging realities of hybrid learning with revolutionary Asus Education devices. Al Dhafra Private Schools ensure that technology plays a key role in their students' everyday learning and is not just limited to the IT classes. With Asus Chromebook C214, the school faculty noticed a wealth of improvements for their students including more consistency in class and home learning. Principal of Al Dhafra Private Schools, Mr. David Evans explained, “Working with Asus, we are able to identify the Chromebook C214 as the best tool for the job for our students in grade 4 and 5.” “The C214 Chromebook is extremely compatible in the classroom, the students are able to use the stylus to write on the screen allowing them to practice the handwriting skills,” Mr. Edward George Lowe also added.
Asus Chromebook Flip C214: flip, explore, and learn
The Asus Chromebook Flip C214 has a convertible design that effortlessly transforms between a tablet and a laptop, or anything in between, making it a supremely versatile choice for the classroom.
Asus Chromebook Flip C214 has a rugged exterior, a spill- and tamper-resistant keyboard, and a dark grey color scheme. It's powered by up to an Intel Celeron N4100 processor, with 4GB of RAM, and 32GB of storage complemented by expansion via microSD or USB Type-A storage. Students can connect to external displays or charge up via either of the two USB-C ports, and a stable and reliable network connection is facilitated by the dual-band Wi-Fi 5 (802.11ac) connectivity.
The 11.6-inch HD display has an anti-glare coating and features a durable 360° any-position hinge that allows users to switch seamlessly between laptop and tablet mode. The world-facing camera is located at the bottom right corner of the palm rest, the ideal location for video calls and recording when the laptop is used in tablet mode. With just a few tools, it is easy to replace the battery, the motherboard, the keyboard, or even the thermal module. Getting inside the laptop takes just a few minutes, which means broken parts can be replaced with a breeze. To sum up, C214 is a device designed for K12 schools to impart effective coaching to their primary grade students.