Growing Up in the Online World: Why Proactive Monitoring Must Sit Alongside Filtering
As concerns grow around distraction and online risk, Sweden’s approach highlights the importance of intentional technology use, balanced learning environments and proactive digital safeguarding that protects students while enabling effective education.
Scotland Has a New AI Strategy and Safeguarding Is at the Heart of It
As concerns grow around distraction and online risk, Sweden’s approach highlights the importance of intentional technology use, balanced learning environments and proactive digital safeguarding that protects students while enabling effective education.
AI Week Scotland: Understanding AI Enabled Harm and How We Safeguard in 2026
As concerns grow around distraction and online risk, Sweden’s approach highlights the importance of intentional technology use, balanced learning environments and proactive digital safeguarding that protects students while enabling effective education.
Beyond ‘Pen and Paper’: What Sweden’s Schools Reveal About Smarter Digital Learning
As concerns grow around distraction and online risk, Sweden’s approach highlights the importance of intentional technology use, balanced learning environments and proactive digital safeguarding that protects students while enabling effective education.
Safer Internet Day 2026: Awareness Isn’t Enough
Safer Internet Day highlights the need for effective filtering and monitoring in schools for safer digital learning environments. Director of Safeguarding and Digital Transformation, Tania Mackie, leads a conversation about it in our latest blog.
Filtering Today in 2026: Navigating AI, Proxies, and Emerging Technologies
In our recent webinar, Filtering Today: Navigating AI, Proxies, and Emerging Technologies, Colin McCabe and I talked about what we’re seeing in the field, what customers are struggling with, and how filtering has to evolve to keep pace.
The Screen Time Debate: Myths vs. Facts – What the Data Really Shows
If you’ve been anywhere near a school board meeting, a parent coffee chat, or even your own dinner table lately, you know the screen time conversation is heated. Phones are getting banned in districts and states across the country, the use of technology in education is being questions, and everyone has an opinion. But here’s the thing—opinions aren’t data.
Visibility and Control of EdTech Devices and Apps: Key Insights from Our Latest Webinar
Over the past few years, schools across the globe have experienced a dramatic shift in the way technology is integrated into teaching and learning. In our latest webinar, I had the pleasure of exploring the challenges (and exciting solutions) around gaining true visibility and control over edtech devices and applications in schools.
What Happens When Your Learning Management System Goes Down the First Week of School?
The first week of school is chaos enough. It’s the worst possible time for your Learning Management System (LMS) to go down. But that’s exactly what happened this fall. And here’s the kicker: the district’s IT team knew before the LMS vendor did.
From Confusion to Clarity: How Lightspeed Signal Addresses Device Swapping and Shared Use in K-12 Schools
The practice of students sharing or swapping devices is becoming increasingly common in K-12 schools, bringing some serious challenges to IT departments. Keeping track of who has what device and ensuring everything runs smoothly can quickly turn into a logistics nightmare.
