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Is This Video App Safe? Mozilla Privacy Report Offers a Look

Edsurge

She is the vice president of advocacy and engagement at the Mozilla Foundation, which today released a new report examining the privacy and security policies of 15 commonly used video-conferencing apps. And it does not look at video-conferencing tools built specifically for education, such as Big Blue Button and Schoology.

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Promote Executive Functioning within School Culture

edWeb.net

As students enter upper elementary and middle school, the focus on executive function strategies declines, so students show up to high school, and don’t know how to take notes or study. Fostering a Culture That Promotes EF. The post Promote Executive Functioning within School Culture appeared first on edWeb.

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How SBG Led Us to Empower: The Tyranny of 82% (Part 1 of 2)

Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

The issue is in the application -- how to track and monitor SBG, especially over time. Not only does it allow for better student advocacy of seeing their academic performance in all classes over years of their academic journey, it allows all of the student's teachers to see all of his/her academic performance in all areas.

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WHAT’S NEW: NEW TOOLS FOR SCHOOLS

techlearning

This follows the company’s recent integrations with Canvas and Schoology and its OneRoster alignment. The company has partnered with advocacy organizations to produce white papers at the 2017 and 2016 Digital Citizenship Summits and provides online monitoring software to schools.

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The Business of Education Technology

Hack Education

” The Gates Foundation is perhaps the best known organization for furthering political advocacy through its funding mechanisms. Throughout the year, Hill and Feldstein dutifully chronicled all the updates (or lack of updates ) to Blackboard, Pearson , Instructure , Schoology , D2L , and the like. (So And the beat goes on.).