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Creating Future Ready Schools and Classrooms

Tom Murray

Today, four years after the launch of FRS, over 3,300 district superintendents have signed the Future Ready Pledge , and thousands of school and district leaders have attended the nearly 50 free events that have been held throughout the country. Many are also taking advantage of the hundreds of free tools found in the Future Ready Dashboard.

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CoSN 2019: New Analytics Dashboard Measures Education Technology ROI

EdTech Magazine

Students now have more devices than ever, making it more challenging to measure whether these technologies are being used correctly in the classroom and how they are affecting student outcomes. . Keep this page bookmarked for articles and videos from the event. eli.zimmerman_9856. Wed, 04/03/2019 - 12:24. Twitter.

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AI in Education: Privacy and Security

eSpark

The rise of artificial intelligence has both opened up new opportunities and raised new questions about everything from safety and privacy to bias and ethics. Here’s what you need to know to keep yourself and your classroom secure. Where does the privacy conversation start? Never use real names, especially student names.

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Technology Not Going to Solve Data Privacy

techlearning

and the MLB All Star game were the backdrop for the inaugural CoSN Student Data Privacy Workshop. The framework of this event was the CoSN Trusted Learning Environment (TLE) Seal Program. We all agreed that student data privacy is a mindset and cultural change that will take time. Washington, D.C.

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Year in Review: Our Top Edtech Business Stories of 2018

Edsurge

Apple and Google continue to up the ante in their quest to win adoption in classrooms. But the edtech industry has hit some bumps along the way, wrestling with collateral concerns from the public spotlight over data privacy and security. Much of the buzz surrounding Apple’s events focus on new gadgets like the iPads.

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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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Meet Caliper, the Data Standard That May Help Us (Finally) Measure Edtech Efficacy

Edsurge

This annual event aims to accelerate the development and adoption of data standards that allow technologies used in schools to “talk” to one another. In a different era where fewer online services and tools were available in schools, there was less digital activity to capture and therefore not as much need for data sharing.

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