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CoSN 2018: Broadband and Cybersecurity Are Top IT Concerns

EdTech Magazine

IT Leaders Focus on Data-Driven Decisions. To assess those filling current IT leadership roles, the survey also delved into the respondents’ professional backgrounds, education and years of experience. The survey also highlighted the different paths men and women take to IT leadership. IT Leaders are predominately white (90 percent).

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Mobile learning: The good and the bad

Neo LMS

Our mobile devices are online 24/7. People in a café now usually ask the staff for the Wi-Fi password, and if there’s no Wi-Fi one can always tap the power of cellular data and stay connected to friends. Schools are slowly implementing BYOD, starting with laptops and tablets, and soon smartphones will become the norm as well.

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Network Essentials for School Board Members

Education Superhighway

As you consider your funding plan, think of bandwidth as the amount of data that can be delivered to each student. Bear in mind that if your district has a Bring Your Own Device (“BYOD”) policy or a guest network, many students, teachers, and visitors will bring one or more devices of their own to your network.

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Inside Tips for Successfully Implementing Online Assessments

edWeb.net

Whether schools are 1:1 or still relying on computer carts, the move to online assessments creates new needs from devices to professional development to data privacy policies. Have an instructional framework centered around curriculum design before talking about assessment. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING.

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Calculating your school district’s bandwidth need: Network Essentials for Superintendents

Education Superhighway

For our purposes here, we can think of bandwidth as the amount of data that can be delivered to each student. While there are other factors that may affect the amount of bandwidth your district needs—cloud-based applications, storage, online assessments, etc.—having

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FOLLOW THE MONEY: FUNDING INNOVATION

techlearning

Designed to support the installation and upgrade of data networks inside school and library buildings, more than 75 percent of applicant sites nationwide have requested Category Two support since Funding Year 2015. In making its transition to online assessment, Delaware used this strategy.

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Key Questions and Recommendations for Online Assessment

edWeb.net

Even in today’s tech-heavy environment, before moving to online assessments, leadership needs to ask: Should we? During their presentation, “Online Assessment: An Evolving Landscape and New Opportunities,” they discussed the lessons they learned when they made the transition and what they would change if they could.