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School ed tech money mostly gets wasted. One state has a solution 

The Hechinger Report

Last year, Brandi Pitts’ kindergarten students were struggling with a software program meant to help them with math. Her school had received free software licenses through a state-funded project, but she’d initially missed the formal instruction on how to use the program because she was out sick. “A

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Digital security and safeguarding student and staff data

Neo LMS

However, it’s very hard to keep up with everything, since most of those norms have been designed based on other industries (financial student data must comply with financial laws, while healthcare data with healthcare laws, etc.). Even the most secure software can be hacked. There’s always room for improvement, on both these fronts.

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EverFi Rocks the Edtech Industry With $190 Million Fundraise

Edsurge

not just deliver software, but also be able to engage with big brands and marry our interests.” Making this model work, Wincup says, is one of the company’s “trade secrets.to

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Color Management and Color Blindness: How Can Monitor Technologies Help? 

ViewSonic Education

This is especially important in the creative industry, where you need the highest level of color precision for your work to impact any audience in a desired way. In comparison, solutions offered by other manufacturers only offers accuracy levels of around 70 percent achieved when using other leading solutions on the market. .

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ChatGPT in Schools: Friend or Foe? 

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

It’s easy to grow jaded about the news that technological innovations are going to wipe out entire industries. So, is ChatGPT the villain of modern education, or is there a place for OpenAI software within the next steps of educational development?

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US Edtech Funding Already Nears $1 Billion in First Half of 2019

Edsurge

education technology industry appears on track to surpass the amount of investor funding tallied in recent years. For the first half of 2019, the industry saw $962 million raised across 65 deals, the highest amount of funding at the halfway mark since at least 2015. The first half of 2019 saw 123 deals of over $100 million.

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Protecting Student Data Privacy as a Guiding EdTech Principle

Lightspeed Systems

Everything else pales in comparison. Last month, a lawsuit was filed by California parents alleging another online monitoring software company illegally collected students’ personal data, including location data, without their consent and sold it to third-party vendors.