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Protecting Student Privacy on Social Media: Do's and Don'ts for Teachers

Graphite Blog

DO: Review the privacy settings on any personal social media accounts. For instance, set your personal Twitter account to "Protected" so only those who follow you can access your tweets. Dive into Facebook's privacy controls. It's easy to overlook these disclosures of students' names. Coming Soon!).

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Does Ownership of Instructional Materials Matter?

Doug Levin

Given the rise of OER (of which I am a fan ), an increasing array of business models, questions about the degree of alignment to state standards and assessments, claims of effectiveness, and interoperability concerns, the instructional materials procurement decisions facing school districts have never been more complicated. Image credits.

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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. Despite predictions that badges would be the “ new credential ” and that we were looking at a “ Future Full of Badges ,” it’s not clear that digital badges have provided us with a really meaningful way to assess skills or expertise.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” An op-ed in Inside Higher Ed by Erik Gilbert : “Why Assessment Is a Waste of Time.” “ Will Trump care about student data privacy? Via The Daily Dot : “ Twitter tells developers to stop making police surveillance tools that use its data.” ” Meanwhile on Campus. .