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Inspired by front-line health care workers, record numbers apply to medical schools

The Hechinger Report

When Covid-19 restrictions reduced his work schedule, Sam Smith turned to another time-consuming job: applying to medical schools. Sam Smith, who is applying to medical schools, says he has been inspired by the example of health care workers during the pandemic; he plans to specialize in infectious diseases. “I SOMERVILLE, Mass.

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The Digital Transformation of Healthcare Education

EdTech4Beginners

These disruptive shifts promise to increase access to medical education, ease skills shortages and better prepare the healthcare workforce to meet future demands. Countries must scale up their medical training programs quickly. Countries must scale up their medical training programs quickly.

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Undercover Threats in K-12 Schools: Ransomware

EdNews Daily

Bad actors target K-12 schools knowing they receive limited cybersecurity funding yet maintain large repositories of personal identity data on their students and staff including medical records and social security numbers.

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FETC 2019: How Small K–12 Schools Can Keep Their Networks Secure

EdTech Magazine

IT teams should also monitor and record network activity for threat analysis, as well as integrate full disk encryption on all faculty laptops. Level Two: In the next stage, schools must make network segmentation a priority, separating mission-critical networks from the rest.

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States bet big on career education, but struggle to show it works

The Hechinger Report

Students suit up for medical assistant class at Walker High School in Livingston Parish, Louisiana. Another agency official said she had been “begging” for years to see former CTE students’ employment records, but the privacy law forbade it. Students practice drawing blood in a Walker High School class that trains medical assistants.

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What Gartner’s Top Tech Trends for 2019 Mean for Education

EdTech Magazine

This technology could be used in conjunction with tools like digital backpacks — longitudinal, interoperable student records — to analyze how individual students learn and to create more effective personalized learning curricula. Systems such as power plants have digital copies, mirroring the real thing, to monitor daily functions.

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Why Videoconferencing Security Is Essential to Remote Learning

EdTech Magazine

“Schools and universities that are navigating remote teaching and administration can be particularly vulnerable to malware, identity theft and other security exposures, and cyberthreats have increased the risk of students’ medical and academic records.”.

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