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There Is a Heightened Awareness Around Student Data Privacy. Here’s What Schools Are Doing About It

Digital Promise

Recent articles emerged as a result of remote learning, including: Remote Learning Software Tracked Kids’ Data to Sell to Advertisers and Brokers. Private equity firm is amassing companies that collect data on America’s children. FTC (Federal Trade Commission) to ‘Crack Down’ on Ed Tech, Student Data Privacy.

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Protecting Student Data Privacy as a Guiding EdTech Principle

Lightspeed Systems

Student welfare is the mission that brought so many of us to the space. Student welfare, of course, is comprised of many elements, including teaching and learning, student mental health, student safety, and, importantly, student data privacy. Everything else pales in comparison.

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Introducing AI Chat for Securly Filter

Securly

Beyond its impact on academic integrity, AI use in schools also raises issues about student data privacy and digital citizenship. Instead, their focus is turning toward solutions to help them use AI in a responsible and ethical way, and teach their students to do the same.

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10 key CoSN back-to-school resources for edtech leaders

eSchool News

Editor’s note : This story on 10 back-to-school resources for edtech leaders originally appeared on CoSN’s blog and is reposted here with permission. The AI in Education Community , along with resources, blogs and webinars, serves as a platform for discovering innovative strategies for schools and districts.

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10 key CoSN back-to-school resources for edtech leaders

eSchool News

Editor’s note : This story on 10 back-to-school resources for edtech leaders originally appeared on CoSN’s blog and is reposted here with permission. The AI in Education Community , along with resources, blogs and webinars, serves as a platform for discovering innovative strategies for schools and districts.

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Overcoming security and privacy concerns with e-learning

Neo LMS

At the postsecondary level, more than 15% of students were enrolled exclusively online in 2017. took at least one online course. It’s important to note that those impressive numbers don’t include remote students at the elementary or high school level. But it’s not only finances at stake where student data privacy is concerned.

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Are Schools Helpless, Hapless When it Comes to IT Privacy and Security?

Doug Levin

Of course, issues of privacy and security are related, but not the same. In general, privacy-related matters address what information can be collected by schools (whether via technology or not), for what purposes, with whom it can be shared, and under what circumstances.