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How K–12 Schools Can Balance Privacy and Security Protocols

EdTech Magazine

MORE FROM EDTECH: Check out how data privacy concerns are expanding with education technology use. Educators Should Take Responsibility for Student Data Privacy. Teachers often use this data to enhance their instruction and target student needs, but they also need to protect their students. .

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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 16 Edition)

Doug Levin

The pace of additions should be concerning to anyone who cares about personalized learning and/or student data privacy. What then of the students? collects and sells user data while helping you clean up your inbox. By 2021, most of the student body should be in the system." Oh, and unroll.me

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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 16 Edition)

Doug Levin

The pace of additions should be concerning to anyone who cares about personalized learning and/or student data privacy. What then of the students? collects and sells user data while helping you clean up your inbox. By 2021, most of the student body should be in the system." Oh, and unroll.me

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States bet big on career education, but struggle to show it works

The Hechinger Report

Related: How career and technical education shuts out Black and Latino students from high-paying professions Yet nearly a decade since starting the overhaul, the state still hasn’t shown that CTE gives students a career boost. In the welding shop, students put the final touches on steel fire pits that will sell for $200 each.

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Year in Review: Our Top Edtech Business Stories of 2018

Edsurge

education—from curbing kids’ enthusiasm for learning to stifling new instructional practices and tools. But too often, he says, kids today “spend almost all their time in education learning how to do computation, and not leaving that to the computers” so they can focus instead on solving real-world, higher-level problems.

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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 17 Edition)

Doug Levin

" Tagged on: May 1, 2017 Can zapping your neck help you quickly learn a foreign language? Tagged on: May 1, 2017 Navigation of Computer-Based Tests Matters for Young Students, Study Finds | Education Week → The assertion that neither mode nor UI would lead to different behaviors (and hence inferences) is what should be astounding.

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

Edsurge

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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