The term 21st Century Learning has been an educational buzzword for a few years. Now, sound educational practices avoid using technology for technology’s sake; however, students still need access to, instruction on, skills relevant to, and safety within the technologies that pervade contemporary society. With the expanding presence of technology, leaders in education understand the importance of creating a digitally literate and critical generation. Obviously, safety, reliability, ease of use, security, and affordability are important factors in choosing technologies for a school. Thus, a technology that could benefit your schools, and thereby your students, would be Cisco Meraki cloud networking.
All educators care about the safety of their students. Cisco Meraki assures that its security features are “education-centric,” touting security that allows for content filtering, Internet SafeSearch, enabled educational YouTube videos, and varying levels of access based on whether users are teachers or students.
Teachers want to know about reliability because writing two lesson plans, one for when technology works and one for when it does not, is time-consuming and cumbersome. Fortunately, this system allows for BYOD and 1:1 deployments. Additionally, the system is built even for population-heavy classrooms. If testing is taking place in certain areas, the system makes it possible to provide faster speeds to those places.
As for ease of use, one of its key features is that it is “idyllic for network administrators who demand easy deployment and the incorporation of the newest ideas with the most up-to-date features.” this particular cloud-based management is easy to use and does not require specialized training or dedicated staff for it to work, a feature that obviously keeps affordability in mind as well. Removing point solutions, solving one particular problem without regard to related issues, saves 50 percent.
21st Century Learning does not have to increase the burden on educators because tools exist for improving student learning while alleviating school systems’ concerns. Contact Teltek for more information about setting up Cisco Meraki Cloud Management for your small business or school.