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World Backup Day March 31st: Student data security

Neo LMS

Another thing you can do is to discuss student data privacy and digital security with PTA members, teachers, and school board administrators. Beyond providing insight, security evaluations and LMS software help administrators address potential vulnerabilities and defend student data immediately. Conclusion.

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Are Schools Helpless, Hapless When it Comes to IT Privacy and Security?

Doug Levin

One cannot be said to have secure IT systems in the absence of a meaningful privacy policy; likewise, one cannot ensure privacy if one’s IT systems also are not secured. School district practice represents the weakest link in protecting student data privacy and security. “ Information security “).

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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. More important, though, every piece of technology must adhere to the district’s student data privacy policies.

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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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5 Reasons to Address Cyber Security

edWeb.net

He is a former teacher but spent 20 years away from the classroom working as a technology attorney and software executive. CoSN provides thought leadership resources, community, best practices and advocacy tools to help leaders succeed in the digital transformation. Prior to EPISD, Juan served as a school law attorney.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Indeed, Edutechnica, which also tracks LMS data, responds with their own numbers and says that Blackboard still has about two hundred more installations than Canvas and about a million more students using the software. Via The Atlantic : “The Rise and Fall of the Family-Vacation Road Trip.”

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

It works well, that is, if you disregard student data privacy and security. Or the company will have to start charging for the software. The End of Library" Stories (and the Software that Seems to Support That). It works well too for teachers wanting to bypass the procurement bureaucracy. And “free” doesn’t last.

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