Today’s K-12 students rely on the Internet for a wide range of academic and extracurricular activities. Understanding students’ online habits can provide valuable insights for educators, parents, and policymakers.
Using the Kajeet Sentinel® platform, educators can gain insight into what online tools students are accessing while using Kajeet WiFi hotspots, LTE Chromebooks, and school bus WiFi. Sentinel also provides insight into the domains that students are attempting to access, but being denied from via Kajeet’s built-in content filters.
In this blog, we’ll discover how students were spending their time online during the 2023-24 school year across 1,500 of our school district partners.
Each year, Kajeet takes a look at the top educational websites that students are utilizing most frequently to see which resources are resonating. Here is the 2023-24 list:
ProdigyGame.com uses game-based learning to make math practice engaging and fun for students. Its personalized learning paths and interactive gameplay motivate students to improve their math skills.
Comparing these lists year over year provides us insight into what digital tools students are increasingly using. Here are some trends we’re seeing this year:
Students are increasingly integrating technology into their daily routines, as evidenced by their online activity patterns.
Kajeet's content filters play a crucial role in maintaining a focused and secure online environment for students. Here are the top sites students attempted to visit on their school-issued devices during the 2023-24 school year, but were denied access to.
From denying students access to streaming media (such as Amazon and Roku) to social networking sites (such as TikTok and Instagram), these targeted filters are helping keep students safe and on-task.
Understanding how students spend their time online allows us to create more effective and supportive digital learning environments. This data highlights a balanced use of educational resources, showcasing the diverse ways in which students enhance their learning experiences. Additionally, the strategic content filtering by Kajeet ensures that online distractions and risks are minimized, helping students stay focused and secure.
Through leveraging these insights, we can continue to support the educational journeys of students as they navigate the online world.
Enabling students to safely explore digital tools and resources has been Kajeet’s mission-focus since its inception in 2003. Our secure wireless solutions are tailor-made for education, connecting students at 1,500+ K-12 school districts across the nation.
Kajeet developed the patented, award-winning Sentinel platform to help schools and districts manage and audit student web activity on school-issued devices. Contact us to learn more about how Sentinel’s features can enhance your digital equity program, including data and device management, a private cellular network, and robust security and threat protection.
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No matter how advanced, innovative, and curriculum-based online educational tools are, they are only effective if students actually use them.
How do educators gain insights into what websites students are actually visiting?
The Kajeet Sentinel® platform was developed to meet this pressing need. Sentinel empowers education administrators with detailed, real-time metrics on student activity on the web. The robust filtering capabilities enabled by Kajeet allow administrators to grant students access to educational sites and to block them from accessing sites that are not school-related.
Educators may log into Sentinel at any time to track student online activity on their school-issued Kajeet devices – including both sites they successfully visit, as well as sites they attempt to visit but are blocked from. This data allows them to make informed decisions about what online tools are proving effective for their students, and which may need further evaluation.
Check out this blog to learn more about how the Kajeet Sentinel platform makes educators’ lives easier.
Below, you will find the top 20 educational websites that were visited via Kajeet devices in 2021.
Google is the largest search engine in the world, and the Google Suite has become widely used in the education space. The cloud-based collaboration and productivity tools are secure and easy to use.
YouTube is a free sharing website owned by Google. While videos on the platform range from entertainment to tutorials to travel videos, a recent Pew research study found that 51% of YouTube users utilize the platform for educational purposes. Popular YouTube channels like National Geographic Kids, Finding Stuff Out, PBS Kids, Simple History, and Khan Academy have become mainstays for educators, especially amidst hybrid and virtual learning.
Get Epic is the top-visited educational site so far this year. Get Epic is one of the leading digital libraries, including access to 40,000 of the best books, audiobooks, videos, and more for students 12 and under.
The Hapara Teacher Dashboard tool enables teachers to view and facilitate real-time browser activity of learners. Teacher Dashboard integrates with the G Suite, so that teachers are able to access all student files and Drives on a single interface.
Instructure is the publisher of Canvas, a web-based learning management system, and Canvas Network, a massive open online course platform.
Clever is a secure pipeline between school district data and the learning applications that teachers and students use. Users may log onto Clever and immediately access all apps that are made available by the district.
Schoology is a virtual learning environment and social networking service for K-12 schools and higher education institutions. Schoology allows students to create, manage, and share academic content with their teachers and peers. Schoology is a Learning Management System (LMS) by PowerSchool.
Prodigy Games is an adaptive, subscription-based learning platform to help students visualize and engage with math.
Seesaw is a digital app-based platform that allows students, teachers, and guardians to complete and share classroom work over a variety of media types (videos, photos, drawings, text, links, and PDFs, to name a few!).
Operated by the U.S. Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), PBSKids.org offers K-12 students a variety of curriculum-based games and videos – many of which feature beloved PBS Kids show characters!
The 11th – 20th most visited educational sites are listed below:
Do you currently use any of these tools? Which do you and your students love? Tweet us @Kajeet and let us know!
Kajeet developed the patented Sentinel® platform to help schools and districts manage and audit student web activity on school-issued devices. Contact us to learn more about Sentinel’s features, including data and device management, a private cellular network, and robust security and threat protection.