The Lightspeed Blog
Learn about upcoming events, K-12 edtech insights, back-to-school tips, student mental health resources, software implementation and utilization, and more, from the experts at Lightspeed on the Lightspeed Systems® blog.
Lightspeed Classroom Management™
Eliminating Distractions in Digital Learning
Even before the advent of digital learning and the proliferation of technology devices at school, eliminating distractions in K-12 classrooms has always been top of mind for educators.
Data and Analytics
Internet Connectivity & Its Impact on Closing the Digital Divide
An important issue in today’s digital learning-fueled K-12 educational environment is the concept of digital equity and closing the digital divide. Recently, Dr.
Online Student Safety
Protecting Student Data Privacy as a Guiding EdTech Principle
Within K-12 education, there is no greater priority than student welfare. Student welfare is the mission that brought so many of us to the space. Everything else pales in comparison.
Lightspeed Alert™
From High to Low: Use Lightspeed Alert's New Monitoring Preferences Feature to Choose Alert Levels
Lightspeed Alert™ scans vast amounts of information and flags potentially concerning text or images, creating alerts that district and school staff then follow up on in the real world.
Lightspeed Filter™
8 Tips to Make Web Content Filtering More Effective at Your School
Lightspeed Systems has been a leader in the web content filtering category for over twenty years, and when you have been in a space for that long, you uncover a
Lightspeed Classroom Management™
20 Ways Teachers Save Time with Lightspeed Classroom Management™
With the mass proliferation of digital learning tools in recent years, digital distractions run rampant. Educators need to ensure students use them properly to advance their learning.
Digital Equity
Digital Equity & Ensuring All Students Succeed
Technology-enabled education has been on an upward trend for well over a decade. The global COVID-19 pandemic only accelerated the adoption by school districts across the entire K-12 spectrum.
Lightspeed Alert™
7 Strategies to Improve Student Safety with Technology
September is National Suicide Prevention Month, and throughout the month, mental health advocates, prevention organizations, survivors, allies, and community members will unite to promote suicide...
Lightspeed Alert™
Lightspeed Alert™ Adds Powerful New Machine Learning Capabilities to Increase Accuracy
From violence and thoughts of death in Hamlet to the dramatic double suicide at the end of Romeo and Juliet, the works of Shakespeare are filled with troubling themes.
Generative AI
What is Generative AI and Why is it Important to Educators?
While sometimes feared, technology is often a perfect match for us humans. Technology, of course, is dependent on humans creating it. Generative AI begins with a prompt.
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