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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. Student data privacy should not be a victim to tumultuous times. COVID-19 is the first social media pandemic. Emphasizing digital equity and advocacy.

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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. Which technologies are collecting student data?

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World Backup Day March 31st: Student data security

Neo LMS

More than a million cases of child identity theft are reported every year and, as school districts continue to introduce students to new technology and advanced digital curriculum, Internet safety education is becoming an increasingly essential tool when preventing cybercrime. What are the risks. Conclusion.

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From High School to Harvard, Students Urge for Clarity on Privacy Rights

Edsurge

What rights do parents, students and teachers have in an educational system increasingly awash in data and technology? The degree of privacy a student gets should not be dependent on that student’s socioeconomic status. In an interview with EdSurge, ACLU’s Advocacy and Policy Counsel, Chad A.

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Critical Guidelines for Ensuring Data Privacy in Districts

edWeb.net

Therefore, assessing privacy and compliance policies and practices related to the systemwide use of technology is a continual priority. Legal issues around data privacy can be overwhelming for the school community. Data privacy training should not be a checkbox at the beginning of the school year.

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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: Girls Who Code. URL: girlswhocode.com. URL: www.inacol.org. URL: makered.org.

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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. ” (This is a good example of how ed-tech advocacy-posing-as-journalism operates – you get funded by an organization and then you get to “break the news” about that organization. National) Education Politics.