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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 17 Edition)

Doug Levin

A day late perhaps, but here’s what caught my eye this past week – news, tools, and reports about education, public policy, technology, and innovation – including a little bit about why. A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 17 Edition). Tagged on: May 1, 2017 “Is Our Children’s Apps Learning?” face up to. |

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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 36 Edition)

Doug Levin

Otherwise, here’s what caught my eye this past week – news, tools, and reports about education, public policy, technology, and innovation – including a little bit about why. A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 36 Edition). Tagged on: September 9, 2017 Do Perks for Teachers Compromise Their Integrity?

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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 36 Edition)

Doug Levin

Otherwise, here’s what caught my eye this past week – news, tools, and reports about education, public policy, technology, and innovation – including a little bit about why. A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 36 Edition). Tagged on: September 9, 2017 Do Perks for Teachers Compromise Their Integrity?

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Fayette County Public Schools Leverage Lightspeed Engagement and Impact to Streamline Edtech and Data Privacy Management

Lightspeed Systems

Lightspeed’s Engagement & Impact solution provides Fayette County with a comprehensive, easy-to-use solution that ensures student data privacy, empowers teachers to manage devices within the classroom, and enables smart and informed edtech decision making. Lightspeed Digital Insight has paid for itself.

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Overcoming security and privacy concerns with e-learning

Neo LMS

More students than ever before now have access to a quality education, no matter where they live. Lesson plans can be tailored to meet the learning needs of individual students. At the postsecondary level, more than 15% of students were enrolled exclusively online in 2017. took at least one online course.

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Tart Retorts and Tools: Overheard at SXSWedu

Edsurge

Tools and Courses WHO’S USING WHAT? New edtech accountability tool CatchOn launched on Tuesday. The tool is currently available on Chromebooks, but the company promises an iOS version soon. The company’s President and CEO, David Levin, says that the tool is currently available outside of the U.S. at a later date.

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SIIA, a Pioneering Convenor for the Edtech Industry, Scraps Its Conferences

Edsurge

They were looking to license their tools, or acquire them, or simply see what new ideas startups were coming up with,” says Karen Billings, who ran SIIA’s education technology division from 2002 to 2016. There were no vendor halls where salespeople demoed their tools. All the big companies wanted to find out who the new ones were.

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