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Championing Students to be a Force for Good in Their Communities

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Brigitta Witt Vice President of Social Impact and Sustainability at T-Mobile One of the most rewarding educator experiences is witnessing students become agents of change and positively impacting their communities with their own creativity, grit and innovation. EdSurge: How did T-Mobile's Changemaker Challenge get started?

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Six Ways to Protect Student Data and Prevent Cyberattacks

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Lurking in the shadows, cyber-gremlins wait for an opportunity to strike so they can capture sensitive data and wreak havoc with school systems. Making sure that every staff member is aware of potential dangers is the first step in keeping your school secure and safeguarding students’ data. Does it ring true?

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Duolingo IPO Shows Investors Think Edtech Is Still Growing.

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billion—which is a good moment to reflect on how mobile learning has entered classrooms and how the company has expanded from just an app. But the real change came when Rosetta Stone’s computer-assisted language software became available for download as one of the first edtech products to become a household name within the U.S.

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4 Tips for Controlling Shadow IT

EdTech Magazine

Shadow IT — the term for hardware, software and applications acquired by an organization’s users without going through the IT department — has become common, especially with the rise in inexpensive computing devices and widely available mobile and cloud-based apps. Shadow IT can’t be eliminated, but it can be better controlled.

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How Learning And Teaching Will Change In The Digital Age

EdNews Daily

I could sit here and argue that it needs to go away because companies are trying to replace our most valued resource – teachers – with computers and algorithms that will sterilize learning. The first is that machine learning algorithms can only be as good as the data that are used to train them.

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Scholastic Makes Misleading Privacy, Security Claims in Services Directed to Children

Doug Levin

In surveys of educators, the company is generally held in high regard. However, despite the maturity and public perception of the company, Scholastic fails to provide even rudimentary security protections for some of its publicly available digital products directed to children under 13. billion dollars.

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Data Sharing Hasn’t Been a Concern for Most Newsela Customers—But Super Users Want More

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Interoperability, defined dryly, is the seamless, secure and controlled exchange of data between different applications and technologies. It allows companies to pay employees via direct deposit, and for you to pay others via mobile apps or online banking services.

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