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Teacher-Student Digital Communication Makes for Good Learning

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With remote learning still at play, students now rely on virtual engagement with their teachers to have questions answered and assignments clarified. With the appropriate tools and tech access, instructional assistance from afar can be academically beneficial. Communications Conversion.

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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 16 Edition)

Doug Levin

The pace of additions should be concerning to anyone who cares about personalized learning and/or student data privacy. million K-12 students. Tagged on: April 18, 2017 He’s got access to your students’ info and is trying to decide what to do. This past two weeks also saw seven (7!) The breach affects 1.3

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Profile of Asbury Park (NJ) Superintendent Sancha Gray

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We have staff, we have a computer-based monolingual English program that parents can log in and access. Dream Academy students—chosen through a mix of GPA, interview, teacher recommendations, and academic portfolio review—can graduate from high school with an associate degree in social science. Now they do.

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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 16 Edition)

Doug Levin

The pace of additions should be concerning to anyone who cares about personalized learning and/or student data privacy. million K-12 students. Tagged on: April 18, 2017 He’s got access to your students’ info and is trying to decide what to do. This past two weeks also saw seven (7!) The breach affects 1.3

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” Via Inside Higher Ed : “A Virginia circuit court on Thursday ruled against a George Mason University student group seeking access to donor agreements between a university foundation and the Charles Koch Foundation.” Canvas has two more installations than Blackboard in the E-Literate calculations?

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Testing, Testing… “ Common Core testing group wages aggressive campaign against critics on social media,” according to The Washington Post’s Valerie Strauss. This week: “ OpenStax Partners with panOpen to Expand OER Access.” ’ ” Data, Privacy, and Surveillance.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” That is, the latest from Blackboard announcing a string of changes to executive roles. Data, Surveillance, and Information Security. Via The New York Times : “ Facebook Gave Device Makers Deep Access to Data on Users and Friends.” Labor and Management. ” More on the report from Bill Fitzgerald.