Schools can maintain close contact with parents, teachers, and children.
Teachers can share information with colleagues.
Students can explore vast new worlds on their own initiatives, simply by pointing a cursor and clicking a mouse. Learning has become interactive, rather than a dry monologue. However, giving a student free rein on the Internet can take him down unsafe or unproductive paths. Placing educational assets outside the firewall exposes schools to the same lack of security and management currently plaguing the global network. With confidential information and student well-being at stake, educational facilities need solid information security.