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Instructure Is Back on the Stock Market, But Not Much Change Expected For Canvas Users

Edsurge

It’s a return of the INST ticker symbol for the company, which first went public in 2015 , but then was taken private last March when Instructure was purchased by private equity firm Thoma Bravo for nearly $2 billion. And Instructure’s latest prospectus doesn’t mention big plans to use data or algorithms, notes Hill.

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Teacher-Student Digital Communication Makes for Good Learning

edWeb.net

Text messaging has become a tool of choice for teacher-student communication (in the past, it was a way to interact with teachers and parents; between 2015-2018, only about 14% of teachers texted with students). Now, two-thirds of students report that they are regularly texting to communicate with their teachers.

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Lessons and Leadership During the Switch to Online Learning

edWeb.net

This article was modified and published by eSchool News. Linnette is a recognized expert in the youth and education sectors and speaks nationally on data privacy. This edWeb broadcast was sponsored by The ProEthica® Program. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING. About the Presenters. Dr. Daniel A.

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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 11 Edition)

Doug Levin

Tagged on: March 19, 2017 The Top 10: Student Privacy News (Feb-March 2017) | Future of Privacy Forum → If you care about student data privacy, worth the read and worth signing up for the email newsletter. Census data, and the divide among states in internet accessibility is apparent.

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5 Reasons to Address Cyber Security

edWeb.net

This article was modified and published by EdScoop. Juan was selected as 2015 Texas Latino Superintendent and was one of 100 Superintendents to participate in the National ConnectED Superintendents Summit at the White House. This edWeb broadcast was co-hosted by CoSN and sponsored by ClassLink. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. It works well, that is, if you disregard student data privacy and security. The implication, according to one NYT article : “the digital gap between rich and poor kids is not what we expected.” Um, they do.)

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Education Technology and Data Insecurity

Hack Education

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.)

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