Edsurge

DECEMBER 17, 2018

A recent New York Times investigation found that many companies receive such precise, extensive data on their users that they—and anyone else they share this information with—could easily identify a single individual and pinpoint their location. Harder still is uncovering the trackers that reveal how the data is being shared.

Tools 131

Tools Policies Data Android 131

techlearning

JUNE 21, 2018

Tech & Learning Rounds Up a Summary of New Tools for Schools Software & Online ACHIEVE3000 & ICIVIC ( www.achieve3000.com The software takes advantage of Casio’s Natural Display technology for input and output of mathematical expressions. The application is free to download from the App Store or Google Play.

Tools 57

Tools Robotics Edmentum Software 57

edWeb.net

JANUARY 22, 2019

But, they also saw a large number of resources being recommitted to just this one aspect of education: space for server farms, money for hardware and software upgrades, overworked personnel, etc. The detailed data helps administrators make informed purchasing decisions. Teachers also spent less time troubleshooting tech issues.

EdTech 40

EdTech PowerMyLearning Software BYOD 40

techlearning

MARCH 5, 2018

Software & Online ACCELERATE LEARNING STEMSCOPES SCIENCE ( www.stemscopes.com ) Accelerate Learning announced a new platform using the best of CNN’s digital content to create a new science education product. EDTHENA ( www.edthena.com ) Edthena has developed a one-click video recording and uploading solution for Google Chrome.

Epson 51

Epson Blackboard Pearson STEM 51

edWeb.net

APRIL 23, 2020

Apps and software are a boon for special needs students, but teachers shouldn’t download whatever they feel like. All software—and hardware—should be vetted by a team of faculty and IT staff. ClassLink Analytics gives decision makers the usage data they need.

Accessibility 55

Accessibility Digital Badges Elementary BYOD 55

Iterating Toward Openness

APRIL 25, 2019

If you look at textbook sales data, you find the omnipresent long tail – a very few high enrolling courses accounting for a large amount of textbook sales, with upper-level and graduate courses accounting for a vanishingly small number of sales. The data in the Kernel Development report shatter this illusion. Second point.

OER 73

OER Course Company Smartphone 73

edWeb.net

DECEMBER 18, 2018

School management needs to take reasonable steps to ensure protection beyond data sharing policies. Professional Reputation: As evidenced by recent incidents, stories about data hacks stay in the news for many cycles. All presenters have heard of school officials losing their jobs from data breaches.

PowerMyLearning 40

PowerMyLearning Data BYOD Training 40

edWeb.net

JUNE 4, 2019

Strategic planning for edtech is an endless journey—and not just because of constantly evolving hardware and software. Most educators look at the cost of their device and software, but what they need to understand is that the total cost includes PD, tech support, sustainability. Are they prepared to adapt to other systems?

EdTech 50

EdTech Digital Badges Software Outcomes 50

edWeb.net

MAY 21, 2021

She started her career as a software engineer at NASA supporting Space Shuttle and Station Operations. CoSN provides thought leadership resources, community, best practices and advocacy tools to help leaders succeed in the digital transformation. ClassLink Analytics gives decision makers the usage data they need.

Learning 78

Learning Broadband Elementary Professional Learning 78

edWeb.net

JULY 31, 2019

Two or more data centers and/or cloud services: If schools need multiple ways to access their data and programs, they also need multiple ways to ensure that their data is secure. For smaller districts, Robbins said budget and resource might put a high-end data center out of reach.

BYOD 42

BYOD Data Software Training 42

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 10, 2017

But for that concept to work, a child must spend a lot of time on the computer, feeding the system with data that the software uses to improve itself. Google’s search engine serves up more of what you’ve clicked on in the past. based education reform advocacy group.

Trends 40

Trends Study Knewton Personalized Learning 40

MindShift

JANUARY 25, 2017

But for that concept to work, a child must spend a lot of time on the computer, feeding the system with data that the software uses to improve itself. Google’s search engine serves up more of what you’ve clicked on in the past. based education reform advocacy group.

Personalized Learning 28

Personalized Learning Technology Knewton Learning 28

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 6, 2020

and MAIT : Beyond the Buzzwords: How to infuse SEL, flipped learning, & more into everyday activities Kate Baker, M.Ed

Conference 34

Conference Learning OER Blended Learning 34

Doug Levin

AUGUST 28, 2017

New data analyses by NCES offer an updated assessment of the adoption of online learning by high schools: More than 4 in 10 U.S. The lack of internal training and investment in cybersecurity-related policy development and practices is responsible for a large proportion of K-12 data breaches. public high schools (42.5

EdTech 150

EdTech Tablets Policies E-rate 150

Doug Levin

AUGUST 28, 2017

New data analyses by NCES offer an updated assessment of the adoption of online learning by high schools: More than 4 in 10 U.S. The lack of internal training and investment in cybersecurity-related policy development and practices is responsible for a large proportion of K-12 data breaches. public high schools (42.5

EdTech 150

EdTech Tablets Policies E-rate 150

The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

But skeptics warn that underneath the language of “student-centered” pedagogy is a tech-intensive model that undermines communal values, accelerates privatization and turns public schools into big data siphons. For decades, nonprofit advocacy groups and corporate donors have targeted K-12 education for intervention.

Personalized Learning 97

Personalized Learning Learning Chromebook Elementary 97

Hack Education

OCTOBER 7, 2016

Google had a big press event this week too, unveiling shiny stuff to a cheering crowd of stenographers. VR headsets (well, it’s really just a mask that holds your Google phone up to your face). Google has also rebranded Google Apps for Education as G Suite for Education. Data, Privacy, and Surveillance.

Education 63

Education MOOC Report Khan Academy 63

Hack Education

JUNE 17, 2016

Via The Hechinger Report : “ Virtual charter schools need ‘bold action’ for change, says national charter school advocacy group.” Who owns your data – whether it’s social media or school-related? ” Data, Privacy, and Surveillance. The company has raised $41 million total. (I

Education 49

Education Coursera Microsoft Company 49

Hack Education

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

” Via The New York Post : “Charter-school advocacy group to close up shop.” Via The New York Times : “Early Facebook and Google Employees Form Coalition to Fight What They Built.” There’s no way to verify these sorts of claims – the data comes from the startups themselves.

Lenovo 51

Lenovo Education Facebook MOOC 51

Hack Education

DECEMBER 1, 2016

” The Autistic Self Advocacy Network issued a statement on the nomination of Jeff Sessions as US Attorney General. Via Google’s press release : “ Google and Bertelsmann launch mobile digital skills initiatives with Udacity – 10,000 Android scholarships available for EU developers.”

Education 40

Education Report Android Libraries 40

Hack Education

JULY 13, 2018

Indeed, Edutechnica, which also tracks LMS data, responds with their own numbers and says that Blackboard still has about two hundred more installations than Canvas and about a million more students using the software. ” Via Edsurge : “ Britannica CEO Talks Google, Wikipedia and What Lil Pump Can Teach Us About Credibility.”

Education 43

Education Khan Academy Blackboard Report 43

Hack Education

APRIL 3, 2017

Silicon Valley does include Mountain View, where Google is headquartered. An advocacy for libertarian politics – think Peter Thiel (a Stanford graduate) now advising Donald Trump. More data collection. It also includes Cupertino, where Apple is headquartered. A belief in technological utopia. A fierce embrace of the new.

Trends 64

Trends Company MOOC Edmodo 64

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

That being said, if you’re using a piece of technology that’s free, it’s likely that your personal data is being sold to advertisers or at the very least hoarded as a potential asset (and used, for example, to develop some sort of feature or algorithm). It works well, that is, if you disregard student data privacy and security.

Pearson 145

Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

Hack Education

JULY 28, 2017

” Meanwhile in that other big football state, Nebraska , the World Herald reports that “Sherwood Foundation buys data-tracking helmets for every OPS high school football player.” “ Should big data be used to discourage poor students from university? ” OPS = the Omaha Public Schools. From the HR Department.

Education 43

Education MOOC Company Report 43

Hack Education

DECEMBER 4, 2016

But even without knowing the funding data for the month of December, I can say a lot. You can find stock market data about publicly-traded education companies at funding.hackeducation.com. Even without funding data to underscore its importance, “personalization” can’t be dismissed. Why, schools of course.

Technology 40

Technology Education Common Core Company 40

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “Economic Boom Isn’t Helping Some Student-Loan Debtors , Advocacy Group Says.” ” Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “With Student Interest Soaring, Berkeley Creates New Data-Sciences Division.” ” Data, Surveillance, and Information Security.

Education 53

Education Company Report IXL Learning 53

Hack Education

JUNE 10, 2016

Data, Privacy, and Surveillance. Via Mindshift : “What’s At Risk When Schools Focus Too Much on Student Data ?” ” Data and “Research” Education Week has released its annual report “ Technology Counts.” ” Hackers, man. public schools.” public schools.”

Education 48

Education MOOC Company Report 48

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 24, 2016

. “Since 1970, DeVos family members have invested at least $200 million in a host of right-wing causes -- think tanks, media outlets, political committees, evangelical outfits, and a string of advocacy groups. “ Will Trump care about student data privacy? ” Now it reads “experts.” And more… yeah.

Education 40

Education Pearson Common Core Report 40

Hack Education

MARCH 10, 2017

As if applying for financial aid wasn’t difficult enough already, it appears that the IRS Data Retrieval Tool, which pulls tax information into the FAFSA app, “ will be unavailable for several weeks.” ” Via Chalkbeat : “Data shows Indiana students are taking AP exams, but half aren’t passing them.”

Education 46

Education Robotics E-rate Social Media 46

Hack Education

DECEMBER 17, 2017

Arguably, there is no better example of this than the ongoing push that “everyone should learn to code,” led at the K–12 level by the industry-backed advocacy organization Code.org. Code.org is backed by a long list of technology companies – from AT&T to Amazon to Facebook to Google to Verizon. (I’ll

Robotics 59

Robotics MOOC Training Industry 59

Hack Education

DECEMBER 2, 2016

Privacy overlaps with “personalization,” and surveillance overlaps with data collection and analytics and algorithmic decision-making. Marc Andreessen famously said that “software is eating the world,” but it’s far more accurate to say that the neoliberal values of software tycoons are eating the world.

Technology 40

Technology Education Facebook Company 40

Hack Education

OCTOBER 28, 2016

” Via the Education Law Center : “Several New Jersey civil rights and parent advocacy organizations have filed a legal challenge to new high school graduation regulations recently adopted by the State Board of Education. ” Google announced it was cutting jobs in its Google Fiber division. The CEO has resigned.

Education 40

Education Pearson Blackboard Survey 40