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What Do Teachers Know About Student Privacy? Not Enough, Researchers Say

Edsurge

What should teachers be expected to know about student data privacy and ethics? Considering so much of their jobs now revolve around student data, it’s a simple enough question—and one that researcher Ellen B. Mandinach and a colleague were tasked with answering.

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6 things schools can do to ensure student data privacy

eSchool News

Student data privacy is quite a different topic from the headlines most people read concerning data breaches. Student data privacy concerns, specifically, center on the misuse of personally identifiable information, known by its acronym PII. Controversy over weakened laws.

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Creating Future Ready Schools and Classrooms

Tom Murray

Personalized Professional Learning. In future ready schools, technology and digital learning expand access to high-quality, ongoing, job-embedded opportunities for professional learning for teachers, administrators, and other education professionals. Data and Privacy. Robust Infrastructure.

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Students Are Online Like Never Before. What Does That Mean for Their Privacy?

Edsurge

The results offer an “unprecedented look at data privacy,” said Adam Burns, chief operating officer at Edge Research, which conducted the surveys. Among the key findings: K-12 teachers and parents have apparently not been deterred by the hurried transition to digital learning during the pandemic.

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Reducing Online Security and Privacy Risk in Your School

edWeb.net

Also, if a website has social media share buttons, the share buttons often send information about your behavior back to these services. However, there is no substitute for reading the full policy. Also, review the school’s data and file backup plan, as well as your own personal plan. Join the Community.

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16 Great NonProfits Working to Support EdTech in Schools

Tom Murray

When I got connected on social media, my lens grew and I became aware of more organizations, as well as some of their supporting tools and resources. Organization: International Association of K-12 Online Learning (iNACOL). Award winning principal, and now Senior Fellow Eric Sheninger , helps to lead much of the digital work.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

It works well, that is, if you disregard student data privacy and security. And certainly the expectation of many ed-tech products (and increasingly school policy) is that parents will do just this — participate in the incessant monitoring of student data. Students recorded fellow students.

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