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Protecting Student Data Privacy as a Guiding EdTech Principle

Lightspeed Systems

Everything else pales in comparison. Student welfare, of course, is comprised of many elements, including teaching and learning, student mental health, student safety, and, importantly, student data privacy. We will always treat that data with the utmost security and privacy.

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Our mutual friends

Learning with 'e's

So Milgram''s notion of six degrees is not so much a theory of learning, more a social contact theory, but it has significant implications for learning in the social media age. Milgram theorised that it could be established that no-one is separated from anyone else in the world by more than six social contacts.

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Tools Harvard Computer Science Students Use to Collaborate, Stay Organized

MindShift

And the silly community events are shared on social media and the course website to help create the community feeling that keeps kids engaged in the academic work. The tools allow users to anonymously submit student work and see a comparison to other existing code. It gives you eyes into what could be a fairly large data set.”

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Educating for Democracy in a Digital Age in Oakland

Educator Innovator

Just prior to the 2012 election, YPP released results of a national survey that questioned 3,000 young people, ages 15-25 on how they use the Internet, social media and engage in politics. But there are challenges.

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Memory Machines: Learning, Knowing, and Technological Change

Hack Education

Image and data credits are listed at the bottom of this post. But the data is flawed. Martin Cooper, a Motorola exec, made the first mobile telephone call in 1973, not 1983. Often, the argument that there’s “too much information” involves pointing to the vast amounts of data that is created thanks to computers.

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Best Annotated Bibliography Generators for Teachers and Students

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

For instance, you identify the weaknesses and strengths of the author's arguments and state how the work stands in comparison to other cited works. Simply select your source from the list, search or enter data manually. This post originally appeared in Educational Technology and Mobile Learning ( www.educatorstechnology.com ).

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News literacy tools: Advice, four sites and a new app (Swiipe)

NeverEndingSearch

Among the ten key trends Pew researchers gathered from among their research reports on social and news media were: Use of mobile devices for news continues to grow. Two-thirds of Americans (67%) get at least some news on social media. . So, let’s work with the data to improve access, quality, and literacy.

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