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AI in Education: Privacy and Security

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Where does the privacy conversation start? Think of inputs as the information you enter into an AI system—anything from your side of a Google Bard conversation to the conversation you have with an AI transcription app to a large spreadsheet full of student assessment data. Never use real names, especially student names.

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Year in Review: Our Top Edtech Business Stories of 2018

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Apple and Google continue to up the ante in their quest to win adoption in classrooms. Much of the buzz surrounding Apple’s events focus on new gadgets like the iPads. Former Google Design Ethicist: Relying on Big Tech in Schools Is a ‘Race to the Bottom’. First, let’s get down to business.

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Confronting K-12 Cybersecurity and the End of Innocence

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In discussions among educators and entrepreneurs about the importance of student data privacy, issues of information technology security risks and threats are often glossed over. While data breaches and technology vulnerabilities from companies such as.

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Meet Caliper, the Data Standard That May Help Us (Finally) Measure Edtech Efficacy

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This annual event aims to accelerate the development and adoption of data standards that allow technologies used in schools to “talk” to one another. Caliper promises to do something new and exciting: It can make available sharing the data of students’ online activities, such as students’.

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What It’s Like Navigating the Strictest Student Privacy Law in the Country

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According to a student data privacy law passed there a few years ago, anyone who collects or shares students’ personally identifiable information (or PII, as the shorthand goes) can be punished by up to six months in prison or $10,000 in fines. After all, they ask themselves, what’s the worst that could happen?

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How Education is Becoming the Front Lines for Debating the Role of Algorithms

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But how much “algorithmic literacy” do most students have, and are college professors preparing students for a world increasingly influenced by artificial intelligence? When the event was canceled, we asked the panelists to do the session remotely instead. Short: I underwent that very formal legal process to try to get my data.