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Critical Guidelines for Ensuring Data Privacy in Districts

edWeb.net

During the edLeader Panel, “ Leadership Challenges and Solutions Regarding Data Privacy in Technology-Enriched Learning Environments ,” three district leaders discussed the five critical guidelines for ensuring data privacy in the use of technology in their districts. Stay current and compliant with federal and state laws.

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Social and Cultural Literacy Resources for Classrooms

Graphite Blog

Social Media for Social Action (by Teaching Tolerance): Get students thinking more deeply about how social media can be leveraged for activism and change, but also about the negative effects inherent in the medium.

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Schools Were Just Supposed To Block Porn. Instead They Sabotaged Homework and Censored Suicide Prevention Sites

The Hechinger Report

The filters did sometimes keep students from seeing pornographic images, but far more often they kept students from playing online games, browsing social media, and using the internet for legitimate academic work. While many districts blocked YouTube and most blocked social media, only a handful blocked sex education websites.

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Education Technology and 'Fake News'

Hack Education

” These beliefs are readily amplified and shared by the very “network effects” baked into the infrastructure of social media platforms. But blaming social media is too easy and too simplistic. Facebook said it would work with the ed-tech advocacy group Digital Promise to teach digital skills.