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08 Nov 2017

Student Safety and SEL

Access to Chromebooks has increased 52% for students in grades 6-8 and 100% in high schools nationwide over the past two years, according to Project T...


By     Jeff Patterson
03 Nov 2017

There’s More Than Homework in Students’ Drive Accounts

Through a partnership earlier this year with Project Tomorrow and the impressive national research project, Speak Up, we’ve found that student use of ...


By     Gaggle
26 Oct 2017

Social Network Spotlight: Reddit

Reddit is a massive community of 250 million users built around the concepts of user-created posts and comments sorted by votes. Reddit is comprised o...


By     Alex Beck
18 Oct 2017

Aligning Student Safety to Your Risk Management Initiatives

Risk is everywhere in our lives. For K-12 schools, risk management solutions include worker’s compensation and personal liability, background checks f...


By     Corey Tutewiler
02 Oct 2017

From Slut Pages to Sexting Scandals: The Impact of Online Shame In Schools

From small towns like Canon City, Colorado, to Winnetka, Illinois, countless schools have been reeling from the fallout of slut pages and sexting scan...


By     Guest Author
27 Sep 2017

How Parents Can Help Keep Their Children Safe Online

From the Project Tomorrow Speak Up survey, we learned that 51% of parents of middle school students are worried about their children's safety online, ...


By     Gaggle
18 Sep 2017

Should You Delete or Suspend Staff Email Accounts at Your School?

Teachers, administrators and other staff will take new jobs, retire and give IT departments other reasons to delete or suspend their email accounts. F...


By     Patrick O'Neal
13 Sep 2017

Why Does Safety Continue to be an Afterthought in EdTech?

Given the amount of funding and resources poured into edtech, why does safety continue to be an afterthought? Especially with regard to online learnin...


By     Corey Tutewiler
05 Sep 2017

How to Get the Most from Your G Suite for Education Implementation

Earlier this year, Google announced that it has more than 70 million G Suite for Education users worldwide. This number has increased from 50 million ...


By     Corey Tutewiler
28 Aug 2017

Make Student Safety a Priority this School Year

As the 2017-18 school year gets underway, it's never too late to evaluate what you're doing to keep students safe when they use school-provided tools ...


By     Gaggle

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