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Parental Control Quick Guide: Keeping Your Kids Safe Online

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In honor of Safer Internet Day (February 9, 2016), here are some quick internet safety tips to keep children from harm’s way: Google SafeSearch. Within “Settings”, you can enable restrictions that act as a safe search option for kids. Social Media Safety. Thankfully, many websites have parental control features.

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Friday 5 — 10.23.2015

Perry Hewitt

“Just a Brown Hand” takes a look at the decision process behind a seemingly small detail: the skin color of the hand depicted in the new Add to Slack feature launched this week. Curious about the future of tech and media? If so, this 136-slide Activate 2016 Tech and Media Outlook is definitely worth the time.

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Why Teacher Recruitment Needs to Change

Insight Education Group

In South Carolina, for example, there were simply not enough qualified teachers to fill positions during the 2017–2018 school year: 6,700 South Carolina teachers left their positions after the 2016–2017 school year, with 4,900 leaving teaching altogether. And the trend continues with educators, too.

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

Doug Levin

Also, this week, thanks to my invited participation in the National Governors Association regional summit, Meet the Threat: States Confront the Cyber Challenge , I published a new post “ How Should We Address the Cybersecurity Threats Facing K-12 Schools? Lloyd Doggett, (D- Texas). million records going up for sale on the Dark Web.

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How LA Unified Cultivates Districtwide Digital Citizenship

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Developing a Responsible Use Policy: Based on trends at the time and research such as June Ahn's work , LA Unified updated its Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) to a Responsible Use Policy (RUP) , which is a document that requires a parent/guardian signature at the start of each school year, making it a highly visible policy districtwide.

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The EdTech Eleven: This Month's Must-Know Tools

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While these aren't recommendations or ratings (you have to check out our Top Picks for that), what you'll find on the EdTech Eleven is a quick and current list of trending tools you might want to check out. Last Updated September 2016. Educators were early adopters of live video on social media. Books That Grow.

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Education Technology and 'Fake News'

Hack Education

2016 was such a terrible, terrible year, and as I composed my reflections on it for this annual series, I wanted to start by recognizing the pain and the loss. I didn’t use the phrase “fake news” in that article, although I’d like to think it was implied. But blaming social media is too easy and too simplistic.