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IT Spotlight
According to a CoSN survey, 82 percent of school districts don't have a plan to address students' Internet access outside of school. That needs to change. MoreEddie Schwartz, the chair of ISACA's Cybersecurity Task Force, discusses his group's recent survey that asked cybersecurity professionals the best ways to protect students' mobile devices. More
Ed Tech Research & Trends
Nearly nine of 10 — 87 percent — of teachers have not incorporated social media into their classrooms, according to a new survey conducted by Harris Poll on behalf of the University of Phoenix. MoreThe survey, which was conducted online this spring by Harris Interactive on behalf of the Future of Privacy Forum, included 1,002 parents in the United States with children 17 and under. MoreParents in the Northeast and West believe up-to-date technology is more important than the quality of their teachers. The reverse is true — that high-quality teachers are more important than technology — in the South and Midwest. Those are among several results of a survey of 600 parents conducted by research firm Toluna on behalf of the Follett Corp. MoreThe vast majority of parents welcome adaptive digital learning as part of their children's classroom learning experience, according to a survey from McGraw-Hill Education. More
K-12 Technology News & Issues
The company's free LMS now allows teachers to push websites to a room full of students, and the productivity suite has new templates, tools and capabilities. MoreLos Angeles Unified School District has begun the long haul of assessing the safety of its 1,200 campuses with the help of specially trained "school site evaluators," iPads and a mobile school assessment tool. MoreLawton Public Schools will begin using Infinite Campus' District Edition SIS in the summer of 2016. MoreA California school district is up and running with a new network and wireless infrastructure. MoreAerohive Networks has introduced a version of its network management system that can be run from an on-premises appliance as an alternative to cloud network management. MoreHuntsville City Schools has been named a Center of Excellence by the Air Force Association's CyberPatriot program. MoreSplashtop has launched Mirroring360 Airplay Receiver to allow users to mirror media from iOS devices to any other device. MoreAfter trying Rediker Software's SIS at four schools last year, the Diocese of Syracuse made the decision to incorporate it all of its schools. More
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