Brick And Mortar Classrooms Must Change To Meet Post Pandemic Needs
The mentality for equipping classrooms with low cost solutions must change in order to meet today’s post pandemic needs
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Georgetown University Collaborative Remote Classroom
Georgetown University, in Washington, D.C., was founded in 1789 and is the oldest Jesuit Catholic institution of higher education in the United States. It is also among the most forward-thinking universities when it comes to applying new technology to learning. Twenty years ago, Georgetown launched its Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship (CNDLS), […]
Key Digital BYOD Education System is User-Friendly for Educators
As new decisions are made surrounding distance learning and hybrid classrooms, Key Digital offers its new take on BYOD 4K wireless presentation gateway devices for the education market. The new KD-BYOD4K for KDPlay is now available. Key Digital says its ease of use and powerful annotation tools makes this stand-alone unit the full solution for the future of […]
New Classroom Audio Enables Hybrid Learning at Duquesne University
Duquesne University recently outfitted more than 40 classrooms with Nureva HDL300 audio conferencing systems and an additional 32 systems have been ordered. SMARTSolution Technologies, an authorized Nureva dealer, supported the university in its search for an audio conferencing system to help students learn in a hybrid environment, where some students are in the classroom and others are participating in […]
NY Announces Nearly $100 Million in School Tech and Security Upgrades
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo recently announced the approval of 148 Smart Schools Investment Plans aimed at improving school security and reimagining teaching and learning for the 21st century with school tech. The approved plans, totaling $94 million, are part of the $2 billion Smart Schools Bond Act — a sweeping education technology initiative first […]
Campus IT: Do Your Buildings Suffer from These Common School Safety Issues?
Some schools will soon reopen in the fall — at whatever capacity they can in the wake of COVID-19 — yet many still suffer from alarmingly common school safety issues. Many school districts hire security consultants to do walkthroughs of their campuses to look for security risks. These assessments often consist of two parts: the physical assessment of each school […]
Motorola Safe Schools Solution Can Analyze Video & Voice Data
Motorola Solutions has announced Safe Schools, an end-to-end solution which uses video, data, voice, and analytics to increase student safety. According to the company, Safe Schools creates a secure environment from the moment a visitor enters a campus, including artificial intelligence video analytics to alert school officials of suspicious activity and seamless communication with local […]
New ASSA ABLOY Launches Explosion and Hurricane-Resistant Door
Access control manufacturer ASSA ABLOY releases its multi-solution door opening that protects against explosions, hurricanes, and fires. The Blast and Hurricane Resistant door and hardware solution was influenced by ASSA ABLOY’s tornado-resistance door and hardware, according to the company. It includes openings from CURRIES or Ceco Door and Corbin Russwin BL6600 Series or SARGENT BL7300 Series multi-point locks, with the new SARGENT and Corbin Russwin’s multi-point deadlocking systems factory […]
The FBI Warns Schools: Online Classrooms, Teleconferencing Apps Are Being Hijacked
With distance learning and videoconferencing on the rise, the FBI says it has received reports that video platforms are being hijacked (“Zoom-bombing”). Two schools in Massachusetts reported the following incidents: In late March 2020, a Massachusetts-based high school reported that while a teacher was conducting an online class using the teleconferencing software Zoom, an unidentified […]
Schools Are Facing More Mobile Device Theft
Pickpocketing and common robbery on on the rise at K-12 schools and college campuses, according to a study which focused on mobile device theft. The 2020 Mobile Theft and Loss Report, released by Prey, Inc., an open-source anti-theft software provider, found it is six times more likely that a device owner is pickpocketed at school or […]
