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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…
Keep Your Curriculum Intact in a Hybrid Setting
How to Battle “Device Drift” of School-issued Computers
According to a Hanover Research report, 30 devices went missing on average at each school between January and September 2020 as students and teachers took devices home for distance learning in response to COVID-19. What’s more is that thirty-six percent of...
Classrooms are changing; are you keeping up?
When the pandemic started, you probably scrambled a bit to quickly develop educational continuity plans that ensured students could continue learning remotely, at least part-time. Likely, you increased the use of current technologies that created seamless learning...
The New World in Education
In its Emerging Trends in the New World of Education, cloud leader Amazon Web Service claims COVID-19 has expedited digital adoption in education as well as “encouraged educators to rethink how best to deliver education to students.” According to AWS, the digital...
Forsyth County Schools on Cybersecurity lessons from 2020
And how they’re shaping the future of education technology. Click below to join Tim Fleming and Curt Godwin of Forsyth County Schools as they guide us through how cybersecurity has changed in the past year and how it continues to evolve as we navigate a post-covid...
Bridgetek Wins 2020 Territory Partner of the Year
Press Release: BRIDGETEK SOLUTIONS Named APC by Schneider Electric 2020 Territory Partner of the Year By Dmitriy Stepanov, Channel Manager: GA, NC & SC, APC At BRIDGETEK SOLUTIONS, we are dedicated to ensuring our customers have the infrastructure in place to...
14 Best Sources of Funding for your Classroom Technology Vision
Although Congress recently passed a stimulus plan to provide over $50 billion to public schools, school districts across the country will unquestionably still face funding issues. Thankfully, several public companies, as well as some private individuals, are stepping...
Remote and Hybrid Learning Reset
“In tech communities, we consider disruption the way to lead to innovation,” said congresswoman Ayanna Pressley back in 2018. Ms. Pressley certainly wasn’t thinking of COVID-19 when she said those words, but they were an accurate portent of the situation schools...
Stimulus Funding for Education
Three stimulus packages have passed through Congress in the past 12 months - here’s what that means for Education. At A Glance: CARES Act Also known as the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act, this was the first stimulus bill signed into law in March...
Forsyth County Schools Leverage Technology
In this article, I interview Tim Fleming, director of technology services, and Curt Godwin, the network operation coordinator at FCS, to gather insights about how they’ve managed technology operations. From project planning, data management, distributed learning, and...
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.