Why Is FERPA Compliance Training Important?
Protecting our privacy is becoming more difficult every day. For you, as a student, parent, or staff member, FERPA exists to give you guidelines to […]
Recipe for Digital Curation of Your Online Persona
Have you googled yourself lately? What does the Internet search reveal about you? With each hashtag, blog post, tweet, and online project at a time, […]
Protecting Confidential G Suite Files
“I’m working with a few schools. They only wish to send password protected files. The files will go outside their organization,” says John M., a […]
Four Steps to Creating Cyber Secure Students
It’s almost impossible to overstate the impact of technology on the lives of students today. With the ever-increasing popularity of social media platforms and online […]
Schools Suffered at Least 122 Cybersecurity Incidents Last Year
The incidents led to stolen identities, tax fraud, altered student records, and millions of stolen tax dollars, according to the K-12 Cybersecurity Resource Center.
SID2019: Safer Internet Day 2019-Participation
. Image credit: http://www.ogilviedesign.co.uk/www.ogilviedesign.co.uk/Welcome.html . Safer Internet Day 2019 – Save the date!. Safer Internet Day (SID) is organised by Insafe in February of each […]
School Connectivity, Access to Devices Continue to Rise, Survey Finds
Districts are increasingly confident in their networks' ability to support one or even two digital devices for every student, according to a new survey of […]
Episode 128 Trends for December 26, 2018 – January 10, 2019: 2018 Reflections & 2019 Predictions, Hardware & Software, Online Teaching & Learning, and Cybersecurity & Digital Citizenship
We discuss the trends and issues we observed during the weeks that include December 26, 2018 – January 10, 2019 as we flipped resources into […]
Episode 127 Trends for December 14-26, 2018: Hardware & Software, Online Learning, Cybersecurity & Digital Citizenship, and End of Year Reviews
We discuss the trends and issues we observed during the weeks that include December 14-26, 2018 as we flipped resources into our Flipboard magazine (bit.ly/trendsandissues). […]
Education Week's Biggest K-12 Technology Stories of 2018
From cybersecurity to school safety, privacy to personalized learning, and social media to media literacy, here are 10 of the biggest stories on the ed-tech […]
Staff Email Addresses Removed From District Websites to Improve Cybersecurity
Some district technology leaders say having staff email addresses publicly available opens the door for phishing scams and potential hacks.
Majority of District Leaders Concerned About Cyber Threats, Project Tomorrow Report Finds
According to a new Project Tomorrow/iboss report, 71 percent of district administrators are concerned about the security of their networks.
