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Teaching tricks: Better data strategies to ease teacher workload

Neo LMS

decreased by 20% between 2014 and 2016. Today’s blog, and the following two, will explore each of these in turn, looking at how both simple and complex technology applications can lighten the administrative workload, so that teachers can spend more time…well…teaching. What is to be done to ease the teacher workload?

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

Edsurge

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. Other similar technologies include Kickboard and LiveSchool.

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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.