Getting Around Web Filters Ever since CIPA was enacted in 2001, school districts have been using web filters to keep their students safe online. And ever since filters have been implemented, students have been trying to get around them.
SAN DIEGO, California - Familyzone.io, a rising US branch of the Australian-based company, Family Zone Cyber Safety, is pleased to announce the business’ rebrand to Linewize. Due to the rapid growth in the US EdTech sector, the company has ...
What is Content Filtering? To comply with the Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA), school districts are required to block inappropriate internet content on devices that are on campus. This is where content filtering software comes in ...
October was National Bullying Prevention Month, and as parents and school districts know, bullying is increasingly happening online. Principals across the country report bullying through “the use of computers, cell phones or other ...
Network administrators at school districts are busy people. Keeping a district’s network systems running on all cylinders is a time-consuming job. And technology constantly changes, which means the work of maintaining security and ...
According to the U.S. Department of Education, hundreds of educational data breaches happen every single year. In the first nine months of this year, at least 10 school districts had been the victims of ransomware attacks. This combined ...
Teachers and network administrators often have a strained relationship. Though they both have students’ best interests in mind, teachers emphasize student learning and discovery, while network administrators emphasize student safety and ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...