How K–12 Schools Are Bringing Classroom Technology to Outdoor Learning

Team LOKGEN April 14, 2022

If you stumble across a group of K–12 school students outside using laptops to track soil levels and search for monarch eggs or observing birdhouses with video cameras, you may have discovered an outdoor learning space.
From informal hammock gardens to high-tech tents, outdoor learning spaces have become markedly more popular over the past few years because of the pandemic. Educators say these spaces give students a chance to breathe fresh air, experience a change of scenery and, most importantly, gain opportunities for increased learning engagement.
In a white paper for the Association for…

Categories: Classroom Ready, LokGen Blog, Uncategorized

Team LOKGEN

Ruggedized IoT Requirements for Outdoor Classrooms

As a way to increase student engagement in the K–12 classroom and provide an opportunity to socially distance, many schools have turned to outdoor learning…

May 27, 2022

Roku partners with Wyze to release smart home products, including lighting, plugs, and cameras, sold exclusively at Walmart starting October 17 (Jon Porter/The Verge)

Jon Porter / The Verge:
Roku partners with Wyze to release smart home products, including lighting, plugs, and cameras, sold exclusively at Walmart starting October 17 — Roku has officially announced a lineup of smart home gadgets that includes lighting, plugs, and cameras. The devices, which were …

October 12, 2022

Metalenz, which makes metasurface optics for 3D imaging and sensing, raised a $30M Series B led by Neotribe Ventures, and says it is shipping millions of orders (Devin Coldewey/TechCrunch)

Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch:
Metalenz, which makes metasurface optics for 3D imaging and sensing, raised a $30M Series B led by Neotribe Ventures, and says it is shipping millions of orders — The cameras in our phones, laptops, and increasingly home robots and the like are about as small as they can get unless …

October 16, 2022

A security researcher says Anker’s Eufy security cameras sent images to the cloud without user consent and could be accessed without authentication (Nicholas Sutrich/Android Central)

Nicholas Sutrich / Android Central:
A security researcher says Anker’s Eufy security cameras sent images to the cloud without user consent and could be accessed without authentication — Allegedly, Eufy cameras aren’t as secure as they claim. — What you need to know — Security researcher Paul Moore has discovered several security flaws in Eufy’s cameras.

November 29, 2022

Everything we know about FTX’s collapse: losses are likely >$15B, trades became increasingly risky, SBF was erratic, rash, and relied on stimulants, and more (Milky Eggs)

Milky Eggs:
Everything we know about FTX’s collapse: losses are likely >$15B, trades became increasingly risky, SBF was erratic, rash, and relied on stimulants, and more — If you want to read a poorly researched fluff piece about Sam Bankman-Fried, feel free to go to the New York Times (PDF).

November 16, 2022

Report: customers are using doorbell cameras like Amazon’s Ring to monitor, control, and punish delivery drivers, such as sharing footage online to shame them (Edward Ongweso Jr/VICE)

Edward Ongweso Jr / VICE:
Report: customers are using doorbell cameras like Amazon’s Ring to monitor, control, and punish delivery drivers, such as sharing footage online to shame them — A Data & Society report interviewed doorbell camera users and delivery drivers to understand how surveillance is affecting both, for the worse.

October 20, 2022

Related Articles