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Why your young students love e-learning

Neo LMS

Some people even lobby for a right to technology for every student, in the hope of making the presence of laptops and tablets in classrooms as spread as that of blackboards and notebooks. They turn to other social media sites , like Instagram, Snapchat, Tumblr, Yik Yak, or Twitter. Everyone is online now.

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The Facebook Scandal: What Can We Learn as Educators

The CoolCatTeacher

Cambridge Analytica was able to take that quarter million accounts that it had permission to look at from Facebook and mine fifty million accounts to look at trends and how people thought about politics and then potentially use that to move the 2016 election in different ways. You and I have both been in social media now for a decade.

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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 16 Edition)

Doug Levin

This week, I also enhanced the K-12 Cyber Incident Map by adding video clips of news reports of select incidents since 2016. Tagged on: April 20, 2017 OIT unveils two-factor authentication for Blackboard log-in | The Princetonian → Princeton University is moving to 2FA authentication for student LMS logins. If not, why not?

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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 16 Edition)

Doug Levin

This week, I also enhanced the K-12 Cyber Incident Map by adding video clips of news reports of select incidents since 2016. Tagged on: April 20, 2017 OIT unveils two-factor authentication for Blackboard log-in | The Princetonian → Princeton University is moving to 2FA authentication for student LMS logins. If not, why not?

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Inside a Student’s Hunt for His Own Learning Data

Edsurge

That didn’t stop Bryan Short, who was a student at the University of British Columbia in 2016 when he got curious to know what information the learning management system at his university had collected on him and how it was being used. That makes it hard for students, professors or even journalists to get a glimpse inside.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” Via the Data Quality Campaign : “ Student Data Privacy Legislation : A Summary of 2016 State Legislation.” com : “2 students, teacher injured in shooting at Townville Elementary [in South Carolina ]; teen in custody.” of Mississippi Students Stage Sit-In Over Racist Social-Media Post.”

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Education Technology and Data Insecurity

Hack Education

Under a Trump administration: I very much want ed-tech companies and schools to reconsider collecting so much data about students — Audrey Watters (@audreywatters) November 10, 2016. 2016 underscored that security flaws aren’t solely a problem of educational institutions and government agencies.

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