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What Happens to Student Data Privacy When Chinese Firms Acquire U.S. Edtech Companies?

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These concerns are only heightened as Chinese investors turn their attention to the United States education technology space acquiring companies with millions of public school users. Net Dragon, a Chinese gaming company that is building a significant education division, bought Edmodo for a combination of cash and equity valued at $137.5

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Sony, Edmodo, partner on math challenge

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will partner with Edmodo, Inc., By working with Edmodo, Sony Global Education will make its Global Math Challenge, a worldwide online math competition, accessible to teachers and students in over 190 countries. With the click of a button, educators and students will gain access to valuable resources and activities.

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Edtech Has Grown More Common, More Global and More Sophisticated. What’s Next?

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Public and private edtech companies felt the pain of these poor results, announcing more than 8,000 layoffs in an industry that only employs about 100,000 people. Dozens of companies raised venture funding at equal or lesser values —“down rounds”— compared to rounds raised during the pandemic-induced edtech boom of 2020 and 2021.

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Mindful Tracking Cookie Policies Improve K—12 Data Security

EdTech Magazine

While teachers and parents can help control what content students can access, many sites have an invisible threat that may compromise student privacy: tracking cookies. Find more best practices for maintaining student data privacy! Tracking Cookies Create Profiles Through Browsing History. Best Practices to Keep Student Tracking to a Minimum.

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Privacy Tool fr @CommonSenseEd Pushes Companies to Make Safer Sites

The Innovative Educator

I’ve written about the privacy policies of some of the popular players in classrooms such as Microsoft, Google, Class Dojo, and Edmodo which you can read about at this link. In many cases that privacy policy you have to click to get access to the site takes more than an hour read. And, no wonder.

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All the Upgrades and Updates From Apple, Google and More at ISTE 2018

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Joining them were an additional 6,000 reps from companies big and small. Fractions covers math standards for grades 3-6 and features a storyline and what the company calls “personalized feedback” through an online tutor. The company describes it as a “digital, adaptive personalized learning solution.”

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Massive Data Breaches, Billions in Wasted Funds: Who Is Holding Edtech Vendors Accountable?

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We were victims of the FAFSA breach, now we are victims again with Edmodo. Most recently, one of the most widely-used education technology companies, Edmodo, had records for. Often they read about these incidents on the news before receiving official notice from the district or company. “We Rachel Stickland, Parent.

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