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There Is a Heightened Awareness Around Student Data Privacy. Here’s What Schools Are Doing About It

Digital Promise

Recent articles emerged as a result of remote learning, including: Remote Learning Software Tracked Kids’ Data to Sell to Advertisers and Brokers. Private equity firm is amassing companies that collect data on America’s children. FTC (Federal Trade Commission) to ‘Crack Down’ on Ed Tech, Student Data Privacy.

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4 Items on Instructure’s To-Do List After the Sale of the Canvas LMS Provider

Edsurge

The learning management system provider—best known for its Canvas product popular among colleges—is officially under private equity ownership. One of the benefits of this change is a focus on long-term planning over displays of quarterly growth to impress shareholders, says Mitch Benson, the company’s chief product officer.

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Want to Organize Your Digital Assets?

EdNews Daily

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. Learning Management Systems (LMS). Student Information Systems (SIS). Instructional Management Systems (IMS). Library Management Systems.

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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. collects and sells user data while helping you clean up your inbox. If you are an Uber fan, time to get to know how the company really operates and question whether they deserve your business.

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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. collects and sells user data while helping you clean up your inbox. If you are an Uber fan, time to get to know how the company really operates and question whether they deserve your business.

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The Marriage Between IT & Curriculum

techlearning

In fact, in Massachusetts, there is a Student Privacy Alliance which connects districts across the state to leverage the collective power in getting companies to agree to their student data privacy agreement. One company I’ve been advising with over the past year that does this very thing is CatchOn.

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Education Technology and Data Insecurity

Hack Education

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. Has our confidence that we or our students have “nothing to hide” changed now under President-Elect Trump ? students given SATs that were online before exam.”

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