Edsurge

MARCH 10, 2020

Among them are concerns over what happens to data in learning management systems like Canvas , to questions over whether campuses should ban facial-recognition software. 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?

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Edsurge

MAY 23, 2017

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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Edsurge

OCTOBER 17, 2016

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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Edsurge

OCTOBER 26, 2016

That’s important in an academic environment,” says Lisa Ho, campus privacy officer at the University of California, Berkeley. She and her colleagues are currently addressing an issue with Piazza , a company that provides an online conversation forum for classes. Threats to student data privacy existed long before the internet.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 13, 2018

Revelations about the privacy practices of Facebook only serve to underscore the stakes surrounding the capture and use of personal data. It is in everyone’s best interests to ensure that schools protect the digital rights of their stakeholders, putting the best interests of students and teachers at the center.”. Weekly Update.

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edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

.” Along with the possibility of negative headlines, consequences for inadequate protection in schools can include an impact on family and student trust, which affects learning and also the quality of work environment. For example: What do you want to protect? Who do you want to protect it from? Join the Community.

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Graphite Blog

MARCH 10, 2016

In conversations about student data privacy, the terms "privacy," "security," and "encryption" are often used interchangeably. This is one of many reasons that the encryption debate looks different for vendors that make hardware relative to vendors that build software.

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EdNews Daily

JUNE 22, 2019

Most schools to date have given the task of digital asset tracking to their technical staff to collect the major system software, the devices, and network information. Technical skills software, such as Adobe Illustrator or AutoCAD . Project based hybrids, such as software to run a robot, science instruments, and calculators .

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techlearning

OCTOBER 25, 2018

The Future of Privacy Forum (FPF) notes, for example, that most student data disclosures are caused by human error—like clicking a false attachment in an email or using a weak password. Links to webinars and other training materials from the model Student Data Privacy program run by the Utah State Board of Education ?

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Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2017

Sloppy or Overly Aggressive Marketing Highly visible and sometimes provocative ads may attract the attention of potential students, but they also attract the attention of regulators, including possibly the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau and, more often, state attorneys general and consumer protection agencies.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 16, 2016

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. I’ll look more closely at discrimination by design – in software and in algorithms – in the final article in this series.)

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Hack Education

JULY 13, 2018

Indeed, Edutechnica, which also tracks LMS data, responds with their own numbers and says that Blackboard still has about two hundred more installations than Canvas and about a million more students using the software. The company has raised $20.4 The company had raised some $40.5 million total.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

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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Hack Education

MAY 27, 2016

On Thursday, the judge gave Google the victory , ruling that the company’s use of the Java API fell under fair use provisions. The Common Core aligned reading software maker had raised $1.8 ” Trends to watch: investors’ interest in English language learning (software). Upgrades and Downgrades.

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