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Micro-credentials and COVID-19: Supporting Professional Learning When Schools are Closed

Digital Promise

Moreover, the Empowering Parents Through Technology micro-credential helps educators use one- and two-way technology for outreach to families. Parents are also increasingly worried about what their children may access or be exposed to online. Student data privacy should not be a victim to tumultuous times.

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Students Are Online Like Never Before. What Does That Mean for Their Privacy?

Edsurge

Technology is enabling learning like never before, with millions of students attending school remotely for some or all of their regular instruction this fall. With this skyrocketing growth in technology use, however, comes greater concerns around student privacy. How is that data being used?

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16 Great NonProfits Working to Support EdTech in Schools

Tom Murray

Prior to my role as the Director of Innovation for Future Ready Schools ® , I spent 14 years in a public school in Pennsylvania as an elementary and middle school teacher, middle school and elementary principal, and district level technology director. Organization: International Association of K-12 Online Learning (iNACOL).

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. “ Can We Design Online Learning Platforms That Feel More Intimate Than Massive? National University has acquired UniversityNow – or some of its technology platform and curriculum, at least. National) Education Politics.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

For the past ten years, I have written a lengthy year-end series, documenting some of the dominant narratives and trends in education technology. The organization, which was founded in 1994, was best known for its annual Horizon Report, its list of predictions about the near-future of education technology. And “free” doesn’t last.

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