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How Forsyth County Schools Leverage Technology for Student Success
Forsyth County Schools have earned a reputation for excellence in education and technology. As the seventh-largest district in Georgia, they serve more than 51,000 students representing 124 countries and 52 languages. FCS operates 39 schools, including 22 elementary,...
Forsyth County Schools on Cybersecurity lessons from 2020 Replay
And how they’re shaping the future of education technology. Click below to join Tim Fleming and Curt Godwin of Forsyth County Schools as they guide us through how cybersecurity has changed in the past year and how it continues to evolve as we navigate a post-covid...
Lockstep Technology Group Partners with Impero Software to Help its Customers Better Support Students’ Technology Use
Impero helps Lockstep Technology Group provide solutions to schools that address both student safety and classroom management. Austin, TX, Jan. 25, 2021 – Managed solutions provider Lockstep Technology Group and student safety leader Impero have partnered to offer...
The Current State of the E-Rate Program – Part III
What is the FCC doing now about E-Rates Issues? When the president declared a national emergency back in mid-March, the FCC made a few quick changes. The first action they took was to temporarily waive the E-Rate gifting rule, limiting the gift value to less than $50...
The Current State of the E-Rate Program – Part II
How can schools provide broadband access to teachers and students? In a recent podcast, I met with Kim Friends, vice president of CSM Consulting, Inc. This company provides a broad range of compliance and software solutions for school districts, offices of education,...
The Current State of the E-Rate Program – Part I
How Will Schools and the FCC Bridge the Homework Gap for Distance Learning? In early March of 2020, the Coronavirus Pandemic stopped the world in its tracks. Schools were shut down across the country and left in a quandary to continue providing education outside the...
Four Cybersecurity Steps Every K-12 School Should Take
Imagine waking up to find that your school’s entire network has been encrypted and someone is demanding a $200,000 ransom to decrypt it. The FBI encourages you not to pay the ransom in order to avoid incentivizing more attacks, but the other option is starting over at...
Cloud Security Myths to Leave Behind in 2021
Are these myths impacting your ability to protect your district from cyber-attacks? Cybersecurity is trending - and not in a good way. Education has accounted for 32% of all cyber-attacks in the last year, and that number is only growing. It is predicted that...
How to Improve Students’ Performance With IT
Cutting-edge technology’s impact on the way students learn has reshaped the classroom experience. Better performance in the education arena aligns closely with encouraging students to interact and collaborate creativity. As a result, traditional learning methods –...
Live from GAMEIS 2021
Be a fly on the wall as you listen in to Tim Fleming, Curt Godwin, Amy Denman, and Brian Trent talk about how this past year has shaped lasting changes in their schools. Leaders in education technology have to be more than just great. They need to consistently nurture...
Don’t waste another cent on unused software licenses
A 2019 study found that 67% of educational software product licenses go unused. In some schools, that number jumps to 90%. Which brings up the question: What’s your educational organization’s percent of unused licenses? If it’s 1%, it’s too much. Every cent you spend...
Grab your popcorn and watch students blossom through self-produced videos
Who doesn’t love a good movie? Action/adventure, romcom, sci-fi, student-produced science class reports....Okay, maybe the last category won’t break any box office records, but, as a teaching tool, it can break through to disinterested students. Today’s youngsters...
The key to maintaining school devices, whether remote or not
Maintaining educational continuity in any school, particularly during any form of distance learning, starts with students having access to a desktop computer or laptop. The trouble is, you can’t protect what you can’t see. If your school is providing these devices,...
How to solve the challenge of assessing student understanding
When K-12 students aren’t engaged in the lesson, they aren’t learning. But beyond visual cues—such as staring off into space or the glaze-eyed look of the lost—assessing whether students are engaged can be difficult for educators. In one study, 16% of teachers cited...
Let’s disappoint hackers
Education has become the number-one target for ransomware since students returned to school in fall 2020, according to the FBI and other security agencies. In fact, the global education sector has seen a 20% increase in cyber-attacks as criminals exploit newly...
How Book Creator lets students show off their creativity, personality, and critical thinking skills
Books have always been an essential part of education. From picture books that help kindergarteners learn their ABCs to five-pound trigonometry textbooks, students read books to reinforce the lessons their teachers are presenting and help that knowledge soak deeper...
Lightspeed Ahead: Relieve the Stress of managing multiple devices
How many devices are you managing right now? And how much time are you (or your small IT team) spending managing those devices? Likely, the answer is more than you were two years ago—or even one year ago. As schools moved to some form of remote learning in the wake of...
Equity via The Cloud
Technology equality can be found in the cloud Picture this: Like most of his peers, 11th-grader Johnny engages with his community and shares his world through videos posted to his TikTok account, Instagram, and his own YouTube channel. He’s not so engaged in the...
Educators Eye The Golden Age of Adaptive Learning
The last 18 months have caused shifts in culture and technology that could bring about the golden age of adaptive learning. “Disaster is a laboratory for innovation,” says Edward Lempinen, a media specialist at UC Berkeley. In some senses, students have struggled with...
The Absolute Advantage
How to keep firm control of your remote devices—and keep hackers away Let’s face it: If you can’t maintain control of your remote devices, some cyber-attacker will take control sooner or later. And when they do, learning stops. Although always a worry, this has become...
How to achieve full endpoint security with your current team and resources
How to achieve full endpoint security with your current team and resources Sometimes, trying to fight off hackers can feel like playing in a five-on-five football tournament, only the other four members of your team couldn’t afford the entry fee, so you’re playing...
Transforming Education through Innovative Technological Infrastructure
with Brent Ramdin, President, Lockstep Technology Group and Lockstep Education Brent Ramdin joins Illuminate’s podcast host, Kiran Kodithala to discuss the pandemic’s impact on learning, what’s changed in the past year, and what the future holds for education in...
Why Schools Should Deploy Smart Security Cameras Over the Summer
For many schools, this summer break looks a little different from previous years. This time, students and teachers will be gearing up to go back to school for the first time in over a year. As the COVID-19 vaccine rollout enables in-person learning to resume...
Leverage School Funding to Close the Homework Gap
Access to the internet has become a necessity in schools, which makes a student’s lack of internet access at home a critical disadvantage. This homework gap and subsequent learning gap have only grown during the pandemic, where many students without sufficient...
How one educator used student creativity to enhance retention
Shady Hanna with the Ottawa Catholic School Board is always looking for ways to keep his seventh and eighth grade students engaged in their lessons. It’s not always easy. He knows that lessons built around collaboration, creativity, communication, and critical...
Social and Emotional Learning
Engaging students in the time of COVID-19 and beyond During a recent Lenovo webinar, 92% of attendees said that keeping students engaged during remote learning is their number-one challenge. One study reports that about 70% of teachers said their students are less...
One solution to protect students online
More than 67% of IT employees say cyberbullying incidents at their schools have increased as students spend more time on laptops, Chromebooks, and other devices. Nearly 80% of those IT employees said cyberbullying behaviors sometimes happen on a device provided to...