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Filtering Current Events to Promote Safe Digital Learning

Lightspeed Systems

Whether it’s during natural disasters or global conflicts, you can rely on Lightspeed Filter to safeguard students of all ages from potentially harmful websites, videos, and images on YouTube, TikTok, X.com (formerly Twitter), Instagram, and more. Where and when appropriate, block searches on specific terms.

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New Report: Equity, Cybersecurity Top List of State Education Technology Priorities

eSchool News

As students return to another school-year impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, a new report sheds light on how state education agencies and policy-makers are adapting to an increasingly digital, post-pandemic world. However, 57% of respondents report that their states provide very little funding for school cybersecurity efforts.

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4 Essential Factors for Student Engagement Based on Current Research

The CoolCatTeacher

Mariana Aguilar discusses the current research on student engagement From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. We can never get enough ideas on how to help our students stay excited, engaged, and learning. We can improve engagement with our students – no matter where they are learning.

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Virtual Museum Tours: Ready to Take Kids on a Field Trip?

The CoolCatTeacher

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. For those of you who want to go on virtual museum tours, the Museums for Digital Learning may have the perfect answer for you. What is included in the Museums for Digital Learning? That is great that they have a way to report issues.

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Announcing the 2021 Cohort of HP Teaching Fellows

Digital Promise

Joshua Tabor, Digital Learning Specialist (Texas). Learn from the HP Teaching Fellows. The HP Teaching Fellows share examples from their classroom through their profiles , blogs , and Twitter using the hashtag #ReinventTheClassroom. Want to learn more about Reinvent the Classroom and HP Teaching Fellows?

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New Research on Student Engagement Best Practices

The CoolCatTeacher

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. We can dig in and find that in some excellent research from the 2020 State of Engagement report. In this blog post, I’ll share my observations and give you links to the report so you can read it for yourself. All opinions are my own.

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Digital Equity: How Far Have We Come?

EdTech Magazine

But district leaders have also discovered that digital equity goes beyond devices and on-premises infrastructure. . It includes training teachers on best practices for incorporating technology into instruction and offering students a consistent digital learning experience. . by Wylie Wong. by Wylie Wong.

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