Edsurge

MARCH 16, 2020

There are efforts to collect and share offerings from companies that want to help impacted schools. NewSchools Venture Fund, a nonprofit philanthropy that funds schools and educational companies, has also started a list. Related EdSurge article on this topic: Want to Help Schools Closed by COVID-19? Don’t Pitch Them Right Now.

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edWeb.net

AUGUST 12, 2021

One point made during the presentation was that free apps are not always the best choice because some companies provide their apps at no charge and then generate revenue by collecting and selling users’ data, and the companies may not be aware of the requirements they need to meet when their users are students.

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Data Student Data Privacy Software Internet Safety 98

edWeb.net

JUNE 13, 2019

With up-to-the-minute data analysis, districts can make informed decisions about critical components of edtech integration, including digital curricula, professional development, investment, and student data privacy. This article was modified and published by EdScoop. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING.

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Data Student Data Privacy EdTech Software 47

edWeb.net

OCTOBER 14, 2019

With the continued emphasis on reading at grade level by third grade, schools are looking for their elementary materials to focus on phonics. No matter what the subject, though, every publisher should be ready to share their student data privacy standards for their digital tools. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING.

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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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Hack Education

MAY 18, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. Via Forbes : “The Startup President: How France ’s Macron Nearly Built An EdTech Company.” ” Ed-tech: where you don’t need an actual product idea for a company, and you can incubate your neoliberalism anyway.

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Education Company MOOC Report 49

Hack Education

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Pokémon Go, a free augmented reality game developed by Niantic (a company spun out of Google in 2015), became the most popular mobile game in US history this year. I’ll look more closely at discrimination by design – in software and in algorithms – in the final article in this series.) Just how secure is that data?

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