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 full-force, IT teams need to prepare their schools’ infrastructure for […]
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 technology at home fell behind their more technologically equipped peers. Closing the homework gap […]
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 thinking hold students’ attention, but repetition could weaken the effects of this four Cs approach. […]
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 engaged during remote instruction than they were before the pandemic—and that’s if they […]
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 students by the school. Of course, bullying—and even cyberbullying—wasn’t created when schools switched to […]
How to be the superhero who protects your schools from cyber attacks
How to be the superhero who protects your schools from cyber attacks Your schools have a bullseye on them, and bad guys are taking their shots. The global education sector has seen a 20% increase in cyber-attacks as criminals exploit newly implemented virtual learning environments. Threats range from nuisance adware to severe malware like trojans […]
Be a Cyber Attack Superhero to Save Your Students
How to be the superhero who protects your schools from cyber attacks Your schools have a bullseye on them, and bad guys are taking their shots. The global education sector has seen a 20% increase in cyber-attacks as criminals exploit newly implemented virtual learning environments. Threats range from nuisance adware to severe malware like trojans […]
Book Time With An App That Drives Student Creativity
In a recent Lenovo webinar featuring staff from the Ottawa Catholic School Board in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, most attendees said they used three or four apps in their classroom, but some used half a dozen or more. That makes sense: In classrooms worldwide, educators are constantly on the hunt for new apps that enhance the […]
Deeper Learning
Captured on video: deeper student learning Les MacFarlane, a teacher with Ottawa Catholic School Board (OCSB), saw the benefits of integrating creativity-driving software into the four Cs teaching model when his classes started using WeVideo. This online, cloud-based video editing platform works in web browsers and on mobile devices—including best-in-class Lenovo Chromebooks. Mr. MacFarlane created […]
Keep your Curriculum Intact and Aligned to Standards Regardless of Where Learning is Taking Place
When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, United Independent School District in Laredo, Texas, was more prepared to shift to a remote learning model than many other districts. That’s because the district had already been using the digital-curriculum platform Exploros in some classes to drive student engagement and drive instructional improvement. Exploros is built around the 5E […]