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5 Essential Tools for Protecting Student Privacy Online

Fractus Learning

MyPermissions is an excellent tool to help clarify student privacy settings and is a great conversation starter on personal data access. A free tool for browsers and phones ( iOS and Android ), MyPermissions collects and displays every app, site and service that has access to your personal data.

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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 11 Edition)

Doug Levin

Do you know that feeling when you are told your questions about student privacy are unfounded by a representative of a company that earns 86% of its total revenue from advertising? “I’m slightly wary of building a Google data profile of a young child,” says @ashleyrcarman @verge [link].

EdTech 170
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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. Without revenue the company will go away. Or the company will have to start charging for the software. Boundless’s materials have been archived by David Wiley’s company Lumen Learning. And “free” doesn’t last.

Pearson 145