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How Education is Becoming the Front Lines for Debating the Role of Algorithms

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Please sign up and take the survey at [link] How aware were students about what role algorithms play as they can navigate the world of information these days? All of them seem to be very aware of what was going on, and I think it’s because advertising has tipped the hands of these tech companies. Fister: It was quite high.

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Practicing Privacy: Insights from Edtech Lawyer Gretchen Shipley

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University of California, Berkeley students filed suit against Google for illegally scanning their emails. Pokemon Go launched its wildly popular location-based and data-hungry augmented reality game. And at least 14 states have passed student data privacy laws, so far.

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

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Starting from the early days of online education tools, teachers have been downloading their favorites and sharing them with students. Tracking usage data can further help leaders refine professional development and understand where there may be a disconnect between teachers and school leaders.

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Lightspeed Learning Lab – Edtech Best Practices for a Smooth Return to School

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Make sure your tech stack is set up to support fundamentals such as student data privacy, emerging challenges like AI policy-making, and ongoing critical mental health and safety concerns. You can specify the download speed, and many more options. 16:34 You can filter to specific schools or grades. 20:13 Um, Excuse me.

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Education Technology and Data Insecurity

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Pokémon Go, a free augmented reality game developed by Niantic (a company spun out of Google in 2015), became the most popular mobile game in US history this year. The game was launched in July and despite mixed reviews, was downloaded some 10 million times the first week it was released. ” From April: “ U.S.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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That being said, if you’re using a piece of technology that’s free, it’s likely that your personal data is being sold to advertisers or at the very least hoarded as a potential asset (and used, for example, to develop some sort of feature or algorithm). It works well, that is, if you disregard student data privacy and security.

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