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When Does Posting Photos of Students Become a Data Privacy Problem?

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Public schools are online just as much as their students, it seems, with profiles across social media. Their Facebook pages contain not just announcements but photos from events on campus—graduations, Christmas band concerts, chess team tournament victories, spirit week—where students take center stage.

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

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based membership association will no longer hold its annual education technology conferences, once staple events for industry leaders. Its 2020 summer conference, originally scheduled for May, convened virtually—but not without losing substantial revenue that it normally generated from its in-person event. billion in U.S.

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Coronavirus FAQ: Everything Schools and Companies Need and Want to Know

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There are efforts to collect and share offerings from companies that want to help impacted schools. NewSchools Venture Fund, a nonprofit philanthropy that funds schools and educational companies, has also started a list. A Facebook group, Amazing Educational Resources, has compiled a spreadsheet of more than 400 free offerings.

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Take Your SOPPA Tool and Make it Functional

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As of July 1, 2021: The Student Online Personal Protection Act, or SOPPA, is the student data privacy law that regulates student information by schools, the Illinois State Board of Education, and education technology vendors. Today’s post doesn’t essentially focus on student data privacy and/or SOPPA.

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Year in Review: Our Top Edtech Business Stories of 2018

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Yet it can be tedious to manually keep track of how students interact with different pieces of software—or whether these tools are even being used. Much of the buzz surrounding Apple’s events focus on new gadgets like the iPads. They all agreed on one thing: Companies are bought, not sold. What’s Next for Pearson?

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

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Over 500 education technologists from companies and districts gathered last week in Denver for the IMS Learning Impact meeting , hosted by the IMS Global Consortium. This annual event aims to accelerate the development and adoption of data standards that allow technologies used in schools to “talk” to one another.

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

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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?