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Critical Guidelines for Ensuring Data Privacy in Districts

edWeb.net

Data privacy, a multi-stakeholder priority for school systems, touches every aspect of operations. 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.

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The Top 50 Best Books for Teachers – Professional Development

Fractus Learning

In Lean In, Sandberg digs into issues, combining personal anecdotes, hard data, and compelling research to cut through the layers of ambiguity and bias surrounding the lives and choices of working women. School Culture Rewired: How to Define, Assess, and Transform It – Steve Gruenert, Todd Whitaker.

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Is recess a right or a privilege?

The Hechinger Report

While other forms of discipline, such as suspensions and expulsions, can also be detrimental to children, they’re formally reported, with data that is transparent to parents and the public. School districts nationwide have made recess detention part of their formal discipline policy, which in many cases is included in student handbooks.

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Truth, truthiness, triangulation and the librarian way: A news literacy toolkit for a “post-truth” world

NeverEndingSearch

Professional journalists themselves face new practical and ethical challenges relating to anonymity, privacy and safety, as well as reliability in their attempts to verify sources of breaking news from social media and user generated content in all media formats. (The On news literacy. Not as a lesson of good vs. bad.

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News Literacy Resources for Classrooms

Graphite Blog

News and politics have been reshaped by social media and 24-hours news entertainment. As a result, there's a lot of crossover between what we think of as news literacy, media literacy, and digital citizenship. Digital Citizenship Curriculum (by Common Sense Education): Free K-12 lessons on news and media literacy.

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Schools Need to Include More Visual-Based Learning

User Generated Education

Use Visuals, Images, Data Visualizations, Infographics and Videos to Teach Concepts. Educators, though, should assess their visual impact. Concepts can also be demonstrated through data visualizations and infographics. But the goal of information visualization is not simply to represent millions of bits of data as illustrations.