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College's Use of Exam-Proctoring Software to ‘Scan’ Rooms Violated Privacy Rights, Judge Finds

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The university argued during the court proceedings that no other students complained, that the student could have chosen a different area to take the test that didn't contain private information and that plenty of other colleges used the same approach during the pandemic shift to online education.

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Classworks® and Gwinnett County Public Schools Are Platinum 2022 Learning Impact Award Winners

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Institutional leaders and public voters selected from 34 finalists to honor innovative projects that successfully impact and elevate learning experiences. The project mitigated learning loss precipitated by COVID and effectively prepared students for the 2021-2022 school year.

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Mississippi’s Vicksburg Warren School District and Discovery Education Launch New Partnership

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Discovery Education is the global leader in standards-aligned digital curriculum resources, engaging content, and professional learning for K-12 classrooms. . Following a careful review of available options, VWSD selected Discovery Education’s flexible K-12 learning platform for classroom use. “The

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?Expanding Access to Edtech Isn’t Enough. We Need to Make Sure It Works, Too

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Five factors currently drive this demand for improving the quality and scalability of education technology: Higher academic standards nationwide. Teachers aren’t becoming less important in the era of rapidly emerging technology; rather, they’re becoming the critical navigators of of newly available tools and information.

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1EdTech and Common Good Learning Tools Launch Major Upgrade to Database of State Learning Standards

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The ultimate objective of CASE (1EdTech’s Competencies and Academic Standards Exchange ® specification) is to make it easier, more accurate, and less expensive for edtech suppliers to align resources and tools with state and district academic standards, therefore allowing educators to find resources that better support their needs.

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K-12 and Higher Ed Institutions Lead Consortium to Advance EdTech Innovation and Trust

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Does your school district or higher ed institution use a learning management system (LMS), digital curriculum resources, learning tools, assessment applications, a badging platform, a single-sign-on application launcher or a student information system? Now, this integration can take just a few minutes.

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The End of the Promise of Personalized Learning?

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These modifications are needed in the COPPA law so that the vision of really personalized learning is not lost: Educational Interest or Needs Sites/Apps/Systems/Platforms Allow Minors Anonymized Marketing. Anonymized means targeters do not see names but can message/advertise to specific groups of users based on educational interests or needs.