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Making Sure Your Online Services Protect Your Students’ Data

edWeb.net

Effective ways to evaluate software and online services in regard to student privacy were discussed during a recent edLeader Panel , sponsored by CatchOn, An ENA Affiliate. The student data covered by FERPA includes any files, documents, or records in other formats that contain information directly related to a student.

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With Budget Cuts Looming, Here’s How Districts Will Decide What to Keep or Cut

Edsurge

The federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act, for example, limits the use of school-improvement funds to interventions that benefit student learning as documented by at least one well-designed and well-implemented research study.

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U.S. K-12 Educational Technology Policy: Historical Notes on the Federal Role

Doug Levin

For each of the three primary (equity-focused) federal educational technology programs authorized by Congress since the passage of the 1994 revision to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), below I provide details on the programs’: legislative authorization (i.e., the more detailed program rules, as determined by the U.S.

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Turning ‘Google Maps for Education’ From Metaphor to Reality

Edsurge

These standards have been traditionally published only as human-readable documents, such as PDFs, that can’t be used directly by education technology tools. In other words, statements within PDF documents cannot be reliably referenced in information systems and digital content.

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What is G Suite for Education? | What You Need to Know! (FREE Download)

Shake Up Learning

Google Docs : Google Docs is a free, web-based word processing tool that allows you to create and edit documents online and collaborate in real-time. Google Drawings : is a free, web-based diagramming software. All You Need to Know to Prepare for the Trainer Skills Assessment and Application!

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Inside Maine’s disastrous roll out of proficiency-based learning

The Hechinger Report

Districts have spent thousands of dollars on consultants and software upgrades, and the racial and socioeconomic achievement gaps that the law was supposed to help eliminate remain largely unchanged. Related: Documenting Maine’s failure to implement proficiency-based education.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

If you look for a definition of “platform” online, you’re likely to get something along the lines of Wikipedia’s – fairly straightforward, although quite technical: A computing platform is the environment in which a piece of software is executed. The company has raised some $77.5 It’s now an LMS too.