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Year in Review: Our Top Edtech Business Stories of 2018

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billion on education software each year. Yet it can be tedious to manually keep track of how students interact with different pieces of software—or whether these tools are even being used. Is Assessment Ready to Move Beyond Standardized Tests? Why Are We Still Personalizing Learning If It’s Not Personal?

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What You Need to Know About Teaching Cybersecurity

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A recommended strategy is that comprehensive cybersecurity courses include the 30 critical concepts such as IT literacy, concepts, terminology, software, virtualization, hardware and system administration, and networks such as Linux and Windows. We have over 200 labs.

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

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COM ) Achieve3000 Pro offers a patented instructional model that combines summative and embedded formative assessments to differentiate content and instruction, so students always see lessons at their just-right reading level. They also liked its teacher dashboard and software interfaces. ACHIEVE3000 PRO ( WWW.ACHIEVE3000.COM

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The Impact of Technology on Education

eSchool News

From interactive digital resources to online learning platforms, technology has given educators innovative tools to create dynamic and inclusive learning environments. Students, in turn, have benefited from increased access to information, personalized learning experiences, and opportunities for collaboration.

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Education Technology and Data Insecurity

Hack Education

I’ll look more closely at discrimination by design – in software and in algorithms – in the final article in this series.) Furthermore, at launch, Pokémon Go demanded users sign over a great deal of personal data and grant permissions to the app that, for a time , gave it access to a user’s entire Google account.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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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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Hack Education Weekly News

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The AP on the Electronic Classroom of Tomorrow : “Education regulators are reviewing a whistleblower’s claim that Ohio ’s then- largest online charter school intentionally inflated attendance figures tied to its state funding using software it purchased after previous allegations of attendance inflation.”