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What It’s Like Navigating the Strictest Student Privacy Law in the Country

Edsurge

According to a student data privacy law passed there a few years ago, anyone who collects or shares students’ personally identifiable information (or PII, as the shorthand goes) can be punished by up to six months in prison or $10,000 in fines. After all, they ask themselves, what’s the worst that could happen?

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Profile of Asbury Park (NJ) Superintendent Sancha Gray

techlearning

Sancha Gray, Asbury Park (NJ) School Superintendent “We service 2,000 students—the majority qualify for free or reduced lunch. A second prong of individualized direct instruction, informed by the data provided from those “games,” was rounded out by a third rotation—reading books of their choosing at their level.

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Privacy Protection and Human Error

Graphite Blog

The Problems Problem 1: The principal has access to large amounts of data on kids but doesn't understand privacy law or the implications of sharing student information -- including information with implications about behavioral issues -- on the open Web. For vendors, train your staff. If you're a founder, train yourself.

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

techlearning

The solution allows teachers to conveniently create and grade tests aligned with Learning Objectives, review student and class performance based on Benchmarks, generate analytical reports and export grade books pre-formatted for LMS input, and much more. They also liked its teacher dashboard and software interfaces.

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Privacy, Security, and Encryption

Graphite Blog

In conversations about student data privacy, the terms "privacy," "security," and "encryption" are often used interchangeably. As was recently illustrated by the Ashley Madison and OPM breaches, corporate data collection and state data collection pose criminal and personal risks.

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Does Ownership of Instructional Materials Matter?

Doug Levin

That same textbook would be used for anywhere from 5-10 years or more – passed from one student to the next – depending on a variety of factors including how well the book held up under student use. Update the examples and sample questions to improve student engagement or the quality of instruction?

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Want to Organize Your Digital Assets?

EdNews Daily

The content industry blew up and atomized into millions of pieces when it used to be consolidated into a few mammoth publishers that pushed out lines of books with an internal structure and consistency to learning that was all mapped out for schools. Digital/digitized elements (such as documents, video, e-books, lesson plans) .

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