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Edsurge
APRIL 24, 2018
Carter notes that the real threat with foreign governments gaining access to student data does not lie in the possibility of them inducing a 12-year-old to commit espionage against the United States. We don’t have a straight answer about what we can and cannot do and to be honest I don’t think Facebook has one as well.
Edsurge
JANUARY 9, 2023
Public schools are online just as much as their students, it seems, with profiles across social media. Their Facebook pages contain not just announcements but photos from events on campus—graduations, Christmas band concerts, chess team tournament victories, spirit week—where students take center stage.
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Doug Levin
APRIL 27, 2017
Zeynep Tufekci shares her experiences more broadly (beyond education) in this provocative talk from June 2016: I’ll be spending some time later this week with friends and colleagues at the EdTech Efficacy Research Academic Symposium and look forward to the dialogue. A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 17 Edition).
Edsurge
MARCH 16, 2020
Tony Wan, Managing Editor Access and Equity How can we accommodate students who have learning disabilities in online instruction and practice universal design principles? A Facebook group, Amazing Educational Resources, has compiled a spreadsheet of more than 400 free offerings. Stay safe, sane and sanitary, everyone.
Edsurge
MARCH 8, 2017
But 76 percent of kids prefer to get their news from social media (especially from Facebook). CHATBOT CHAMPIONS: AdmitHub , a Boston-based edtech startup that creates conversational AI to help students through college, has some numbers to back up its college-expert chatbots. Tools and Courses WHO’S USING WHAT? Who Said What?
The Hechinger Report
MAY 13, 2018
As internet users, we implicitly understand that if we’re not paying for a commercial service, our data — and the content we create — are being commodified and sold to others. Revelations about the privacy practices of Facebook only serve to underscore the stakes surrounding the capture and use of personal data.
Doug Levin
APRIL 23, 2017
Last week, the “Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News” was on vacation, amongst the tall trees of the northwestern coast, and mostly off the grid. The pace of additions should be concerning to anyone who cares about personalized learning and/or student data privacy. This past two weeks also saw seven (7!)
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