eSchool News

JUNE 6, 2023

schools since 2016. They hold the keys to large quantities of valuable intellectual property and sensitive PII, financial, and healthcare data that can be exploited for ransomware and monetary gain. Local K-12 schools are a top target for cybercrime. It’s understandable why school networks are an opportunistic target.

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Neo LMS

MAY 2, 2017

Social media channels provide the digital alternative for the “traditional” social life and support communication within online communities non-stop. They turn to other social media sites , like Instagram, Snapchat, Tumblr, Yik Yak, or Twitter. Gamification is all about data.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 28, 2018

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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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

As misleading news reports, misinformation and false data spread throughout the world, students of all ages need better instruction on how to assess media and data. Some universities and some K-12 school systems have developed media literacy courses and standards to help. Related: Getting schooled in social media.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 30, 2023

In recent weeks, news outlets and social media have been filled with depressing stories about “declines” in student achievement, in both reading and math. But teachers were heroic during the pandemic, and data shows that students continued to strive toward meaningful learning, even with many forms of chaos erupting all around them.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 5, 2018

In a nutshell, Cambridge Analytica, was a corporation that used Facebook data and had permission to look at about a quarter million accounts, but because of the way Facebook sets itself up, whenever you give permission to Facebook, you’re also basically giving permission for Facebook to look at your friends. Vicki: Yeah. Vicki: Yeah.

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eSchool News

MAY 11, 2023

Each day, Geneva CUSD 304’s teachers, administrators, and staff seek to educate the nearly 5,500 students they serve within an environment that encourages the desire to learn and meets the unique academic, personal, physical, and social needs of each child. However, the data only tells part of the story.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 18, 2021

The study focused on fifth graders who said they were playing online video games, using social media or texting “many times” a day and their characteristics and behavior in kindergarten. “We More than 10,000 of the students had answered questions on their technology use in the spring of fifth grade in 2016.

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eSchool News

JULY 13, 2022

A student may forget which teacher encourages the use of social media as an inventive form of learning and expression, and which only allows access to the learning management system. Department of Education, 2016). It might be fine to use headphones during work time in period one, but in period two they better be out of sight.

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edWeb.net

JUNE 13, 2019

While it is believed that the barrier to district leaders and classroom teachers using more data is that they don’t have time to look at it, 33% of districts and teachers say the real challenge is that information is in too many places for them to access. Data Analytics. Data Privacy.

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Edsurge

MARCH 5, 2017

A team of researchers from the Consortium for Policy Research in Education at the University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate School of Education has been digging deeply into social media data to examine the roots of the public dialogue around Common Core.

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Tom Murray

JANUARY 12, 2016

With the new year now upon us, listed below are six edtech resolutions for 2016. News headlines containing the NSA, Home Depot and Target a number of months ago, as well as the debacle of a bankruptcy case with ConnectEDU combined with a push by a number of parent bloggers, brought student data and concerns over privacy to the forefront.

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Doug Levin

AUGUST 20, 2017

In the absence of the weekly news round-ups, I took the time away to do some further writing and analysis: Everything’s Bigger in Texas…Including (Maybe) the Data Breaches , which details the ham-handed way in which the Texas Association of School Boards has communicated about their breach of personal information about Texas educators.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 17, 2021

But when the researchers broke the data down by state, the neat correlation between reading and comprehension fell apart. It’s perplexing,” said Elena Forzani, an assistant professor of education at Boston University, in reaction to this reading data, which is still unpublished but was presented at two education conferences in April 2021. “We

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 6, 2023

She has taught English Language Arts, Social Studies, Film, Journalism, and enjoys writing, illustrating, and cooking in her free time. You know, there's a lot more to that when it comes to the biases of the data and important things like that. What About the Lack of Data Transparency with the Data Sets Used by AI?

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2024

Credit: Image provided by The Washington Center Nationwide, slightly more than 60 percent of students graduating in 2023 completed an internship during college, according to survey data collected by the National Association of Colleges and Employers. Micro-internships like Nabeel’s are another relatively new option.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Bill Fitzgerald While Blaine is a fictional student, the technology that’s tracking him is real, and actually in use in some school systems, part of a growing set of tools that leave data trails about students throughout the day. In 2013, HeroK12 began offering educators an opportunity to collect and analyze student behavior data.

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Edsurge

JUNE 6, 2019

ReUp communicates with students through phone, email, text messaging and social media. About 26 percent of students who started college in 2016 failed to make it to their second year, according to the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. The company is paid each semester the students attend.

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Securly

JANUARY 12, 2017

Most students find web filtering to be unnecessarily inhibitive, citing that it blocks perfectly acceptable web pages due to one keyword or denies access to social media pages. Some schools leave social media open, some schools restrict access, etc. The general sentiment: students –especially teens– hate web filtering*.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

Like Kerpoof , thousands of educators are scrambling to replace a fundamental tool that was to be an integral part of their 2016-17 lesson plans. Share on social media or via email. Viewers can interact with the data you’ve linked. When done, share with email, an Educreations link, or via social media.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 19, 2016

Student data privacy is quite a different topic from the headlines most people read concerning data breaches. Student data privacy concerns, specifically, center on the misuse of personally identifiable information, known by its acronym PII. Even if being done in the aggregate, there are still concerns of misuse.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Bachelors of arts degrees in the humanities decreased from 36 percent in 1970 to 23 percent in 2016, according to data from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System. Over the same time period, career-oriented majors in science, technology, engineering and mathematics crept from 64 to 77 percent.

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Edsurge

APRIL 29, 2021

Multiverse— founded in London in 2016 under the name WhiteHat by the son of a former U.K. Prime Minister—reported in January raising $44 million to bring apprenticeships in data, software engineering, digital marketing and project management to the U.S. Multiverse is doing outreach through Instagram and other social media networks.

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Edsurge

MARCH 15, 2021

By Deloitte’s most recent count , 37 percent of organizations have deployed AI solutions (up 270 percent from 2016) and a majority predict it will “substantially transform” their companies by 2023. Using TikTok, he shows how the popular social media platform uses AI to recommend content or videos to its users.

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Edsurge

JULY 29, 2020

Department of Education reported that for the 2015-2016 school year, more than 7 million students —or 16 percent of all students—and 20 percent of high school students are chronically absent. To address absenteeism, school administrators have turned to outside groups to help implement data-informed intervention and outreach strategies.

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Securly

MARCH 18, 2016

By January 2015, over 60% of them had already converted according to data from the DfE. However, all that changed yesterday in the 2016 budget which stated that by 2020 all schools in the UK must have converted to academy status; LA’s will no longer be responsible for education.

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Bryan Alexander

JANUARY 24, 2016

Last week I participated in the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) 2016 conference. The event became much more dramatic than expected, once the hosting city, Washington DC, was clobbered by the great snowpocalyspe of 2016. Let me share some materials here, along with reflections on the conference.

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Learning in Hand

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Twitter Analytics and Instagram Insights show me data about my social media posts. Social Media ?? I like to end each year by sharing which posts earned the most retweets and likes. Reviewing my top postings helps me see what resonated during 2020. My top tweets from each month of 2020 ?? Newsletters ??

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 22, 2019

The others are automatic license plate readers with movement detection capabilities around school grounds, as well as 24/7 online social media monitoring. Between 1992 and 2016, crimes at school ranging from theft to serious violent victimization declined across demographic groups.

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techlearning

MARCH 8, 2018

Eighty percent (80%) of parents say personal email is the most effective way for schools and districts to communicate with them, according to Speak Up data released by Blackboard Inc. When it comes to social media, this disconnect is large.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 29, 2020

No matter which data point you focus on, they all say the same thing: As recent graduates prepare to enter the job market, many will do so with less support from their institutions than past graduates have received. “We Related: What if we hired for skills, not degrees? Nationwide, at the end of April, the unemployment stood at 14.7

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Technology can collect and harness more data than ever before. Hyper-stimulating media pervades their worlds, social media culture makes them feel inadequate, and existential pressures of economic, community and environmental decline hover over their futures. If so, what new challenges have emerged?

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Doug Levin

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

K-12 cyber incident that I’ve identified since the start of 2016. If this doesn’t get you thinking about the security risks of schools collecting and managing sensitive data, I’d submit you may not be paying close enough attention. Now that very same data could be used to track them down.

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Doug Levin

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

K-12 cyber incident that I’ve identified since the start of 2016. If this doesn’t get you thinking about the security risks of schools collecting and managing sensitive data, I’d submit you may not be paying close enough attention. Now that very same data could be used to track them down.

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EdTech Industry Student Data Privacy Social Media 150

Edsurge

MARCH 23, 2018

She explains that the quizzes that can gather someone’s data usually show up on personal feeds, not on group pages. I was trying to be more aware of what I was allowing into my brain,” says Barclay, who graduated in 2016. Opting out of social media, he says, isn’t ever really an option for people.

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ASIDE

JULY 18, 2019

Source: ASIDE 2019 Mapping challenges learners to think, develop literacy skills, and understand the complexity of global issues, design, and data. There is a direct correlation between the act of making a map and the knowledge acquired by doing it.

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eSchool News

APRIL 11, 2019

Reported data on how many kids experience cyberbullying can vary depending on the age of kids surveyed and how cyberbullying is defined. According to the 2018 Common Sense report Social Media, Social Life , 13 percent of teens age 13-17 say they’ve been cyberbullied, including 9 percent who say it has happened to them more than twice.

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