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Student Data Privacy: What’s Your Obligation?

Tom Murray

However, the misuse and breach of digital student information has brought data privacy to the forefront. House Education and Workforce Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education and the U.S. A few months prior to the hearing, data breaches at both Home Depot and Target became national news.

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How Should We Approach the Ethical Considerations of AI in K-12 Education?

Edsurge

AI shows up in instructional chatbots, personalized learning systems and administrative tools. Moreover, since effective AI solutions require large amounts of information, maintaining student data privacy is an ongoing challenge. There is likely to be no field or industry untouched by AI before long.

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Remote Work May Transform Higher Education. But Will Printers and Alexa Undermine Its Privacy?

Edsurge

One: It’s the inaugural Horizon Report focused on information security, after the many previous editions that broadly covered “teaching and learning.” Some of the 15 seem obvious (“shifts to remote learning”), others eyebrow-raising (“demand for electricity”), and some downright creepy (“authoritarian surveillance”).

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Making Sure Your Online Services Protect Your Students’ Data

edWeb.net

After the sudden switch to remote and hybrid learning models at the start of the pandemic, the use of online tools and resources may seem like less of a concern now, but ensuring that studentsdata remains protected is still a priority, especially as it is a federal requirement. Watch the Recording Listen to the Podcast.

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Hero Awards finalists: 18 schools and educators dedicated to learning

eSchool News

Seamless integration with teachers’ education platforms helped to immerse students in their learning material. The staff now uses the interactive display to create and present lesson plans and share content with students utilizing their own tablets. The program gives students technology skills that can lead them into the future.

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Trump's Edtech Agenda Should Address Effectiveness, Equity, and Equilibrium in Higher Ed

Edsurge

radio and televisions in the early 20th century and online learning and MOOCs via the Internet in the early 21st century.) However, the questions have largely stayed the same: Do technologies ensure quality learning and positive student outcomes? Do they help or hurt underrepresented students? stated it hopes to “.

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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 11 Edition)

Doug Levin

Tagged on: March 19, 2017 Textbooks could be history as schools switch to free online learning | Philly.com → Garnet Valley is a district in the vanguard of a nationwide movement to ditch traditional textbooks for open-source educational resources on the web. There is reason to wonder, nonetheless. " Readers respond.with gusto.

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