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Lightspeed Systems’ New ‘Digital Equity’ Module Provides Actionable Insight Into Students’ Internet Connectivity And School-Issued Device Health When Learning Outside of School

eSchool News

Address issues in real-time and save time troubleshooting school-issued devices with student-level data, including internet speeds at home, service providers and more. An extension of Lightspeed Digital Insight , the Digital Equity module takes the guesswork out of understanding how students are using digital tools off-campus.

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SIIA, a Pioneering Convenor for the Edtech Industry, Scraps Its Conferences

Edsurge

They were looking to license their tools, or acquire them, or simply see what new ideas startups were coming up with,” says Karen Billings, who ran SIIA’s education technology division from 2002 to 2016. Broadband internet access and cloud computing made it easier to distribute educational software once sold on floppy disks and CD-ROMs.

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The Challenges of Easy Data Access

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Tactical student data privacy questions like “What can I do right now?” should be asked by all CIO’s, teachers, administrators and policymakers in this changing landscape of data access, student privacy and interoperability. Fruth describes this new data access landscape as a teeter-totter effect.

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The top 10 school IT leader concerns

eSchool News

Annual survey outlines broadband, instructional materials, student data privacy as top among school IT leaders’ concerns. Broadband and network capacity is school technology leaders’ top priority, according to the results of an annual IT leadership survey from CoSN.

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5 ways to give teachers and principals more say in ed-tech buying

eSchool News

They’re charged with considerations like scale, compliance, and student data privacy. Many products, digital resources and tools weren’t designed for teacher-level purchase and use. In most cases, district hardware and broadband infrastructure don’t support site-level decision-making or deployment.

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Get to the root of the edtech issues with three key questions

edWeb.net

Starting from the early days of online education tools, teachers have been downloading their favorites and sharing them with students. Thus, while a school may think it has 20 official edtech tools in the classroom, the unofficial list could be over 200. Do you know if any of these applications violate student data privacy?

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16 Great NonProfits Working to Support EdTech in Schools

Tom Murray

When I got connected on social media, my lens grew and I became aware of more organizations, as well as some of their supporting tools and resources. This post is the first of a short series meant to highlight the great work of many nonprofit organizations that are working diligently to support students’ learning on a daily basis.