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Who Else is Collecting Data About Your Children?

Securly

Digital footprints are not exclusive to online shoppers or avid social media users; everyone has one, including your 5-year-old child. However, “age limits” did not stop persistent pre-teens from joining social media and gaming sites. Regardless, 10 years later, data collection came to be mostly implicit.

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Popular K-12 Tool Edmodo Shuts Down

Edsurge

Those with data on Edmodo should remove it by the end of the day September 22nd if they don’t want to lose it, officials stated. Its folding led to some eulogizing on social media platforms like Twitter. Edmodo platform was one of my best app when I started teaching in 2013.” What Happens To The Data? It's so sad!”

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Who else is collecting data about your children?

Securly

Digital footprints are not exclusive to online shoppers or avid social media users; everyone has one, including your 5-year-old child. However, “age limits” did not stop persistent pre-teens from joining social media and gaming sites. Regardless, 10 years later, data collection came to be mostly implicit.

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A Gullible Population Is a National Security Issue

The CoolCatTeacher

While this blog is based on verifiable data, some readers may be unhappy with my interpretation. Social media has not shown an ability to “self correct” perhaps because by its very nature, the responses can only be positive and thus, there is no self-correcting mechanism built into its algorithm. Source: Wired.

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5 Aspects of digital citizenship students must be aware of

Neo LMS

Teaching students these kinds of “clean” online practices that will keep them and their data safer. Last year CareerBuilder.com conducted a survey that asked 2,303 hiring managers how they include social media in their hiring process. Teaching students about digital citizenship and online hygiene.

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ISTE 2018: 5 Best Practices for Adhering to Federal Privacy Laws

EdTech Magazine

classrooms, it’s critical to keep student data safe. Current Federal Laws Guiding Student Data Protection. Hawes added that there are a number of state , local and tribal data privacy laws for districts to consider as well. “At At last count there were 119 state privacy laws passed in 39 states since 2013,” he said.

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Characteristics of The 21st Century Teachers

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Networking, both in-person and online through social media, educational blogs, video conferences, and forums, plays a crucial role. 2013; Parsons, 2012; Vaughn, 2015, ). 2013) investigated the impact of instructional adaptations on student literacy achievement. Adaptive teachers, as Madda et al. Madda et al., ” (p.

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