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ISTELive 2022: Cybersecurity Tips and Trends to Protect K-12 School Systems

EdTech Magazine

K–12 school IT leaders can take some small but powerful steps to help them properly manage cybersecurity and protect data privacy in their schools. We talked with Robert Olsen, senior managing director with Ankura, about how job postings and social media can provide unintended openings for threat actors.

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How EdTech Can Encourage Healthy and Professional Social Media Use in Teens

EmergingEdTech

Today’s teens have never known a world without social media. While teens are pretty savvy regarding social media use, it can be a slippery slope if they aren’t educated on how to use it correctly and safely. As of 2022, it’s estimated that about 46% of teens use some form of social media almost constantly.

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Data science under fire: What math do high schoolers really need?

The Hechinger Report

Students chat about the data analysis they’ve performed on their cellphone usage over a week, while Perizzolo walks around the room fielding their questions. They also determined the research questions they’d ask of the data — such as whether social media use during class reduces comprehension and retention.

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Generative AI, Chat GPT, and Learning

The CoolCatTeacher

If you have public website, your data can also be used to train tools like Chat GPT and some are trying to block their sites from being training data , as well.) When AI Fails Training Data is Older I did ask Notion to summarize the top three articles in edtech with hyperlinks. So, the training data is older.

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PROOF POINTS: Stanford’s Jo Boaler talks about her new book ‘MATH-ish’ and takes on her critics

The Hechinger Report

Ted Cruz on social media. This controversy matters on a much larger level because there is a legitimate debate about how math should be taught in American schools. Nearly 2 out of every 5 eighth graders don’t even have the most basic math skills, according to the 2022 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP).

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Crunch the Numbers—New Data on Student Tech Use; Chromebook Predictions; And the Impact of Pandemic Relief Funds

eSchool News

“Born connected: The rise of the AI generation”, reveals the app use and technology habits of children aged 4-18, detailing trends in screen time, social media and communications, mobile gaming, online entertainment, learning tools, and for the first time in the report’s history, use of artificial intelligence tools.

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OPINION: Can we please stop talking about so-called learning loss?

The Hechinger Report

In recent weeks, news outlets and social media have been filled with depressing stories about “declines” in student achievement, in both reading and math. When we asked the students to question data on climate change and its sources, they dove in, displaying curiosity, critical thinking skills, computer and data literacy.

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