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Thoughts, insights, and data on how Information Technology leaders can reshape the future of education, drive strategic change at their institutions, and manage the deluge of requests/tasks that require their attention…
Achieve Endpoint Security Without Growing Your Team
How to achieve full endpoint security with your current team and resources Sometimes, trying to fight off hackers can feel like playing in a five-on-five football tournament, only the other four members of your team couldn’t afford the entry fee, so you’re playing...
Transform Education With Innovative Technology
with Brent Ramdin, President, Lockstep Technology Group and Lockstep Education Brent Ramdin joins Illuminate’s podcast host, Kiran Kodithala to discuss the pandemic’s impact on learning, what’s changed in the past year, and what the future holds for education in...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Time to Get Focused?
We exist to help overworked, under-appreciated, under-funded, and task-saturated IT teams elevate from reactionary ticket handling to a strategic role helping students, faculty, administrators and others meet their goals.