Doug Levin

APRIL 23, 2017

While a comprehensive post of my initial findings will be published in the coming weeks (in partnership with the Future of Privacy Forum ), I did offer up a quick post this week on an emerging issue worthy of greater consideration: Should We Be Sending Students Who Hack Their Schools to Jail? million K-12 students.

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Doug Levin

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

For over 40 years the Wyoming Department of Education (WDE) ran a program to support this vulnerable student population, but that has come to an end - in part because of student data privacy concerns. What does it reveal about how these companies imagine teaching and learning. teachers and students?

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Doug Levin

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

For over 40 years the Wyoming Department of Education (WDE) ran a program to support this vulnerable student population, but that has come to an end - in part because of student data privacy concerns. What does it reveal about how these companies imagine teaching and learning. teachers and students?

EdTech 150

EdTech Social Media Student Data Privacy Industry 150

Doug Levin

MARCH 19, 2017

Do you know that feeling when you are told your questions about student privacy are unfounded by a representative of a company that earns 86% of its total revenue from advertising? “I’m slightly wary of building a Google data profile of a young child,” says @ashleyrcarman @verge [link].

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 17, 2017

“The first line of defense in protecting student privacy are our teachers, and we’re not making sure that they have the tools to keep that data safe,” said Amelia Vance, policy counsel for the nonprofit Future of Privacy Forum. If you have a heartbeat and access to a computer, that’s a really good place to start.”.

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Edsurge

MARCH 8, 2017

LEAVING THE AMAZON: At last year’s SXSWedu, Amazon’s Education team and the company’s General Manager of K-12 Education, Rohit Agarwal, launched the " Inspire " platform, with promises to support the open education resources space. percent decrease in the amount of students who don’t return after summer and a 3.9 at a later date.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

It works well, that is, if you disregard student data privacy and security. Without revenue the company will go away. Or the company will have to start charging for the software. The real digital divide, this article contends, is not that affluent children have access to better and faster technologies. (Um,

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Graphite Blog

MARCH 10, 2016

In conversations about student data privacy, the terms "privacy," "security," and "encryption" are often used interchangeably. " Great security and bad privacy A vendor can go to extreme lengths to make sure that data can only be accessed by the vendor or the partners of the vendor.

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Hack Education

JUNE 8, 2018

” Via Motherboard : “ Twitter Is Banning Anyone Whose Date of Birth Says They Joined Before They Were 13.” Denny Sanford, whose company – checks notes – sells social emotional learning curriculum to schools. The company has raised $15.7 Data, Surveillance, and Information Security.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 24, 2016

” DeVos’s brother, Erik Prince , is the founder of the private military company Blackwater , infamous for its human rights violations, including the murder of 17 Iraqi civilians in 2007 by its employees. “ Will Trump care about student data privacy? The company offers online degrees in Africa.

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