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Waterford Gets $20M+ Grant for Online Preschool. Its Critics Are Not Happy.

Edsurge

Founded in Utah in 2009, Waterford provides a program that mixes adaptive software for preschool-aged kids, along with child development training and check-ins for parents. Waterford’s program does track with the AAP’s guidelines , which recommend no more than an hour of high-quality screen time per day for kids aged 2 to 5.

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5 Critical Guidelines for Student Data Privacy

edWeb.net

Teachers can no longer download any app they want and use it the same day—every piece of instructional technology must be vetted for how it relates to educational goals and checked against software the school already has. Rather than creating policies and compliance guidelines from scratch, start with what works and adapt it for your school.

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Twilight of income-share agreements to pay for college?

The Hechinger Report

Rockhurst University in Kansas City, Missouri, has put its program on pause while it seeks more clarity on the changing federal guidelines, Katherine Frohoff, a university spokesperson, said by email. Others worry about federal scrutiny. Little is known about whether former students who have ISAs are happy with them.

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K-12 Leaders on the Impact of Artificial Intelligence and Generative AI

edWeb.net

From sophisticated software programs that amazingly interpret keystrokes before they are made to financial institutions predicting purchasing habits to tools like ChatGPT creating sophisticated marketing materials, AI, or rather, generative AI, has burst onto the scene seemingly overnight.

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The CARE Framework

Iterating Toward Openness

We know that in parallel contexts, like open source software or Wikipedia, long-term sustainability can be possible with only a tiny fraction of all the beneficiaries of the open work contributing directly. In a more nuanced version, they don’t believe companies should be able to benefit from OER without giving something back.

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The Business of 'Ed-Tech Trends'

Hack Education

Education Week also reported in February that the State Educational Technology Directors Association had released a new website that offered guidelines on purchasing digital materials. In February, Education Week reported that districts and schools will be able to make purchases online via Amazon through the US Communities cooperative.

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What?s New: New Tools for Schools

techlearning

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. CASIO CLASSPAD.NET ( classpad.net ) Casio’s ClassPad. K-12 market.

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