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Moving from Banning Technology to Embracing Technology


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09 Mar 2018

Moving from Banning Technology to Embracing Technology

Despite the advancements of technology and its proven contributions inside schools and districts, there’s still pushback on the utilization of mobile ...


By     Gaggle
01 Mar 2018

Compliance Rules and Email Archiving: What You Need to Know

I’ve written in the past how archiving can minimize litigation costs for school districts through eDiscovery and with the ability to handle Freedom of...


By     Patrick O'Neal
20 Feb 2018

Making Sense of the Common Sense Census

Jeff Mao, former Senior Director of Outreach at Common Sense Media, provided one of my favorite analogies a few years back. We were talking about how ...


By     Rob Yoegel
12 Feb 2018

How Four School Districts Keep Their Students Safe on G Suite for Education

More than a year ago, Google introduced G Suite for Education. Formerly known as Google Apps for Education, the company touted the name change emphasi...


By     Gaggle
06 Feb 2018

Student Safety and Restorative Justice

Zero-tolerance behavioral policies spread throughout the United States in the mid-1990s, after the Gun-Free Schools Act of 1994 required states to exp...


By     Corey Tutewiler
25 Jan 2018

Are There Student Safety Concerns in Your Archive?

I’ve written in the past about the reasons why you should archive email, documents and files using a third-party solution. Similarly, there are strong...


By     Patrick O'Neal
19 Jan 2018

Should Educators Focus on Just Citizenship Instead of Digital Citizenship?

Every passing year, technology and innovation continue to grow and develop. With technology always shifting, our communities and especially our studen...


By     Guest Author
11 Jan 2018

The Impact of Technology-Facilitated Crimes on Students

For years, technology-facilitated crime has presented courts and legislators with the difficulty of maintaining the pace and rapidity of trends in onl...


By     Gaggle
03 Jan 2018

Have Schools Become Too Dangerous?

The term “physical campus safety” probably conjures up images of smoke detectors, evacuation plans, tornado drills, recess monitors and other componen...


By     Gaggle
21 Dec 2017

Top 10 Gaggle Speaks Blog Posts from 2017

Before you ring in the new year, we've compiled this list of top blog posts based on traffic to the Gaggle Speaks Blog and the number of shares each p...


By     Gaggle

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