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Teaching tricks: Better data strategies to ease teacher workload

Neo LMS

decreased by 20% between 2014 and 2016. Read this truly interesting article about tracking and quantifying classroom culture, that also profiles two great tech resources to track behaviors and responses in your students: ClassDojo and Kickboard. Teachers are the fastest shrinking position type in the US!

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Why the State of Surveillance in Schools Might Lead to the Next Equifax Disaster

Edsurge

In 2016 ProPublica reported that 236 schools in New York City required students to go through some sort of scanner to enter schools. Other similar technologies include Kickboard and LiveSchool. Since 2016 he has identified more than 200 cybersecurity related incidents in schools.

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The Business of Education Technology

Hack Education

The total dollars invested in 2016 are off by about $2 billion from this time last year; the number of deals are down by a third; and the number of acquisitions are off by about 20%. Or lack thereof – see “ The 2016 Ed-Tech Dead Pool.”). Jen Medbery stepped down as CEO of Kickboard. Funding has shrunk.