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Lessons and Leadership During the Switch to Online Learning

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To deal with these types of situations, the panelists emphasized the need for clear and easily understood privacy policies, and transparency about what students and their parents should expect from remote education. Linnette Attai is the founder of PlayWell, LLC , a global privacy and marketing compliance consulting firm.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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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. In an era before Facebook or Edmodo, the social networking site Ning was, for a time, quite popular with educators. And “free” doesn’t last.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Testing, Testing… “ Common Core testing group wages aggressive campaign against critics on social media,” according to The Washington Post’s Valerie Strauss. ” Via The Kansas City Star : “ Rockhurst University is sued over data breach in phishing scam.” Commencement and Awards.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Via EdScoop : “‘Deliberate cyberattack ’ delays online assessments in five states.” ” (I guess this is some sort of follow-up to this 2016 story in Edsurge touting Education Element’s work helping districts implement personalized learning.). Data, Surveillance, and Information Security.

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Education Technology and Data Insecurity

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Under a Trump administration: I very much want ed-tech companies and schools to reconsider collecting so much data about students — Audrey Watters (@audreywatters) November 10, 2016. What will happen to the massive amounts of data that education has collected? To data about students’ immigration status?

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