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Lessons and Leadership During the Switch to Online Learning

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Knowing the lack of digital access would severely impact the education of students in lower-income households, the district decided to empty the “Chrome carts,” used to bring Chromebooks to classrooms, and set up drive-through distribution points where students could receive computers and connectivity devices.

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

Doug Levin

Tagged on: March 19, 2017 The Top 10: Student Privacy News (Feb-March 2017) | Future of Privacy Forum → If you care about student data privacy, worth the read and worth signing up for the email newsletter. Census data, and the divide among states in internet accessibility is apparent.

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Teacher-Student Digital Communication Makes for Good Learning

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Text messaging has become a tool of choice for teacher-student communication (in the past, it was a way to interact with teachers and parents; between 2015-2018, only about 14% of teachers texted with students). Now, two-thirds of students report that they are regularly texting to communicate with their teachers.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. It works well, that is, if you disregard student data privacy and security. Pearson PARCC "Spies" on Students. We want to be the Uber for Education,” Udacity founder Sebastian Thrun told the Financial Times in 2015.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Via Education Week : “ Mississippi Attorney General Sues Google Over Student-Data Privacy.” Google has released the latest generation of Chromebooks. Via Techcrunch : “ Microsoft launches Intune for Education to counter Google’s Chromebooks in schools.” ” Education in the Courts.