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Fayette County Public Schools Leverage Lightspeed Engagement and Impact to Streamline Edtech and Data Privacy Management

Lightspeed Systems

Lightspeed’s Engagement & Impact solution provides Fayette County with a comprehensive, easy-to-use solution that ensures student data privacy, empowers teachers to manage devices within the classroom, and enables smart and informed edtech decision making.

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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 17 Edition)

Doug Levin

Tagged on: May 1, 2017 Google's Chromebook End of Life Policy stops support after 5 years | PCWorld → Planned obsolescence: Google's End of Life Policy sets a schedule for retiring older Chromebooks, but the details are murky. " Tagged on: May 1, 2017 Can zapping your neck help you quickly learn a foreign language?

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How Districts Can Unlock Actionable Data

edWeb.net

Data analytics tools give the visibility school districts need to transform data into meaningful and actionable insights. No matter how much time teachers are given to work in data teams, tables and graphs can be so complicated that they can lose sight of how the data relates to a particular child, specific classroom or grade level.

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T&L’S ISTE 2018 BEST OF SHOW AWARDS WINNERS

techlearning

ACER CHROMEBOOK TAB 10 ( WWW.ACER.COM/AC/EN/US/CONTENT/HOME ) The Acer Chromebook Tab 10 will be used in classrooms to expand and enhance student learning. In addition, CatchOn helps district administrators mitigate student data privacy risks associated with unknown tool usage.

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Hero Awards finalists: 18 schools and educators dedicated to learning

eSchool News

In particular, they wanted to be able to encourage consistent practices across school buildings, ensure compliance with Colorado’s student data privacy requirements, reduce frustration and confusion among stakeholders (including parents and staff), and begin to evaluate the impact of edtech on student outcomes.

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What’s New

techlearning

EDSBY UPDATES ( edsby.com/edsby-k12-dataaggregation-analytics/ ) Edsby announced that it has built sophisticated data aggregation and analysis capabilities that allow states, provinces and countries to optimize their education investments and policies. FOLLETT DESTINY 16.0 ( [link] ) Follett has released Destiny 16.0,

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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. Derek Newton argued in The Atlantic that Staton’s (and by extension Carey’s) analysis misconstrued what most parents and students want from schools. Certainly “free” works well for cash-strapped schools. And “free” doesn’t last.

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