December 21, 2022 Digital Citizenship | Distance Learning | Student Safety

How to encourage responsible device usage during school breaks

As educators become adjusted to a post-pandemic learning environment, it’s important for administrators and IT personnel to manage school-issued devices strategically. Over the past few months, ransomware groups have increasingly targeted schools. Unfortunately, this is an all-too familiar trend. According to the K-12 Cybersecurity Resource Center, there were 408 publicly ...

 
December 15, 2022 Distance Learning
Sending student devices home over school breaks: What to consider

The following article is written by EdTech expert and author Carl Hooker. Carl has 20+ years in education and K12 consulting. He speaks on a multitude of topics from digital wellness to technology integration and district leadership.

 
August 19, 2020 Distance Learning
Pandemic learning pods; the good and the bad

While U.S. schools wrestle with the decision to reopen this fall or embrace remote education amid the pandemic, parents are apprehensive and skeptical of both options and have taken it upon themselves to find a Door Number 3.

 
August 16, 2020 Instructional Technologist | Distance Learning
Helping Teachers Combat Interruptions in the Digital Classroom

While most teachers have methods for dealing with students acting up in a physical classroom, they are having to quickly learn to address interruptions in a virtual classroom. Not only are students finding ways to use technology to act up ...

 
April 13, 2020 Distance Learning
Future-Proof to be Pandemic Ready — Now is the time!

As a school district IT Admin or Leader, you are essential to America functioning in the unfortunate new normal—you operate the largest networks in the country and in your cities. None of us know when this is going to end but more and more ...

 
April 10, 2020 Distance Learning
How school districts can get the most out of the CARES Act

As COVID-19 has hit the country, IT teams at school districts have never been so important. Their efforts have been invaluable as school districts ensure our kids can continue learning from home. This is no small feat. Even for schools ...

 
June 26, 2019 Superintendent | CTO | Distance Learning | Filtering
What to consider when going 1:1 in your school district

Providing a device for every student in your district can be daunting, but it’s worth the effort. Fifteen years’ worth of research shows that giving every student a laptop improves their test scores in English/language arts, math, and ...

 
June 26, 2019 BYOD | Superintendent | CTO | Distance Learning | Filtering
What Does Your District Look Like at Capacity?

With cloud services, 1:1 programs, BYOD and ever-increasing bandwidth & storage, the technology landscape is dynamically changing for education. As school technology administrators, we're asking questions we've never asked before, ...

 
June 18, 2019 BYOD | Distance Learning | Filtering
The Cost of 1:1 Programs

When it comes to considering the cost of 1:1, the questions are endless. What is the average cost of a device when purchasing at scale for every student? What are my peer school districts doing with their taxpayer dollars or grants? What ...

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