“When things aren’t working, it’s much easier for students to become disengaged,” Luizzi said. “Because the focus turns into what isn’t working instead of the content. Focus shifts away from the content to the device.” Luizzi also said some teachers who are experimenting with the wireless technology might be reluctant to try again once students have trouble getting online, especially because it takes a lot of class time. “Ultimately, we’re using it to enhance learning, but if it’s not working, we’re not going to use it,” he said. “It becomes so challenging that the teacher will become reluctant to spend as much energy on that in the future.” The ICT Department is asking the town for $1,156,854 for capital projects for 2014-15. Besides the wireless access upgrades, the money would account for other equipment leases.
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Palm Beach County Upgrades Wi-Fi To Support Digital Learning — THE Journal
These two initiatives placedconsiderable strain on the district’s aging controller-based 3Com wirelessnetwork, which didn’t cover all schools, allow centralized management or supportthe 802.11n wireless standard. The district needed a distributed network architecture that could support therapid growth in mobile devices and e-learning, including support for highdefinition video streaming. The district considered many vendors as part of itsbid evaluation process and decided on a wireless network solution from Aerohive Networks because it wascost-effective, met all of the district’s feature requirements and could expandwith anticipated network growth. The district implemented more than 13,000 Aerohive access points in its schoolsand administrative offices. The district uses AP121 accesspoints in classrooms web link to support a wide variety of mobile devices; AP330 accesspoints in media centers, gyms, cafeterias and auditoriums to provide highercapacity in those areas; and AP170 accesspoints in outdoor areas and sports facilities. The district also implementedAerohive’s HiveManager Network Management System (NMS) in a private cloud to enable theIT team to manage the entire network from a central location. The district’s new Aerohive network currently supports 125,000 devices, anumber that is expected to grow as the district expands its 1-to-1 program. Thesame architecture supports three separate networks within the network: one foremployees, one for students and one for guests. The student network blocks andlimits access to certain applications as mandated by the ChildInternet Protection Act , which requires K-12 schools to filter harmfulcontent. The Aerohive network has enabled the district to expand its onlineactivities. The district now provides larger online testing facilities for allstudents, more mobile devices and access to digital textbooks, as well as accessto e-learning tools such as the Edmodo social learning network and Edline community management system.
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School wireless network not working for 1 of my 2 computers? – Wireless Network – Wireless Networking
Tags: pladpenguin00 February 13, 2014 8:47:41 AM Ok so i am currently using my laptop to type this and i am using the schools internet here at georgia southern. But my desktop is not connecting.It started yesterday when we had icing problems and the internet shutdown. Well its obviously back but my desktop wont connect. The school uses an identity confirmation application to make sure that we dont have squatters on the network. The moment i enter my id and password and press enter, google shoots me an error page that says 1 of 2 things, either the network is down or that there was a connection break and that i should reload the page. well ive reloaded the page and turned off my computer, reset my netgear wifi adapter, run diagnostics on the wifi, disconnected, reconnected, so on and so forth. Im at the point where i dont know what to do on my end anymore and the phone number for the assistance on the other end, no one is there. I assume because we have the day off but i dont know. So im back at good old tom’s hardware looking for some answers.
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