EdTech Magazine

JULY 13, 2023

Schools store, handle and transmit some of the most sensitive data that exists about people, including grades, health status, addresses, Social Security numbers and even financial information.

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 26, 2023

Use student data to personalize learning: The concept isn’t new. The number of times children raise their hands in class is data; the percentage of students who missed the same question on a test is data. Where technology now plays a role is in scaling the use of data.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 2, 2022

Studying student data seems to not at all improve student outcomes in most of the evaluations I’ve seen,” said Heather Hill, a professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education , at a February 2022 presentation of the Research Partnership for Professional Learning, a new nonprofit organization that seeks to improve teaching.

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EdTech Magazine

JULY 17, 2023

“School systems are swimming in valuable data that potentially could be used to support students,” says Susan Bearden, former director of digital programs for InnovateEDU, a nonprofit educational organization that is home to the data advocacy group Project Unicorn.

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EdTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

In the digital education landscape, modern technology collects a large amount of data. While it’s important to protect student data, it’s also important to note that there is more digital data available to educators than ever before.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

In today’s data-driven era, schools and districts must embrace data interoperability. Taking steps to unified K-12 data may seem overwhelming at first, but it’s OK–we’ll guide you through the process in this eSchool News webinar. Implement measures to break down data silos and improve accessibility.

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EdTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Many K–12 districts are not using data analytics tools, which is not to say they shouldn’t be. Good data analytics solutions don’t simply churn out data for IT leaders to analyze and interpret, they give IT administrators visibility into their systems.

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EdTech Magazine

JULY 11, 2022

Both IT leaders take a proactive approach to online security, emphasizing the importance of protecting student data and school networks. Vrain Valley Schools, and Tim Tillman, CTO at Chesterfield County Public Schools in Virginia, share their strategies for improving cybersecurity in their districts.

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EdTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Data storage is critical to modern education, particularly in K–12 schools. With the increasing use of technology in the classroom, the amount of data being generated and stored is growing rapidly, and that brings an issue schools must consider: bit rot.

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 20, 2022

He understood that instructors were racing to bridge the gap between school and home to keep student learning on track, but in the back of his mind, a question lingered: What impact would these new resources have on student data privacy? “We Teachers might be able to use an application at no cost…

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EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Parents and guardians of K–12 students are rather aware and concerned about student data privacy, but a majority are lacking specific information from their schools. However, the same report shows that less than half of parents (4 in 10) say their child’s school has discussed with them how it protects student data.

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EdTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

However, despite the widespread use of cloud tools in K–12 education, only 23 percent of respondents are “very concerned” about data breaches or leaks, the…

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 28, 2022

To effectively address student data privacy, K–12 IT leaders need to understand the legal requirements. The main federal statute guiding student data privacy is FERPA, which stands for the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act.

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EdTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Data analytics tools may be the answer to questions that IT leaders are only beginning to ask in K–12 education. There’s a further benefit to these analytics tools: helping K–12 educators evaluate the impact of their chosen digital solutions and manage their virtual and in-person classrooms.

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EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

The notion that “every company is a data company” is so widely accepted that it’s almost a cliché. Still, many organizations continue to struggle even to inventory and organize their data, much less leverage it in a way that helps them to arrive at transformative insights.

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EdTech Magazine

JUNE 21, 2022

The TLE Seal is awarded to K–12 districts that meet the requirements within CoSN’s framework for protecting student data privacy. KEEP READING: Discover the three…

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EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 18, 2021

The national K-12 Cybersecurity Resource Center reported 408 publicly disclosed cyber incidents in 2020, including student and staff data breaches, malware outbreaks, denial of service attacks, phishing attacks and other social engineering scams. That’s an 18 percent increase from 2019, according…

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techlearning

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Data science education and literacy are critical for students to learn, especially with the ever-growing focus on digital data

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EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 21, 2020

As systems continue to evolve, it is crucial that data security strategy advances at the same speed. This means ensuring watertight protection of educational data against one of the most common forms of attack: ransomware. If schools took proactive precautions, such face-offs might never be necessary.

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 9, 2023

Plus, managing a traditional data center is not exactly easy. When it was time for New Albany–Floyd County Consolidated School Corp. in Indiana to upgrade its aging server and storage hardware, it could have purchased another server and storage area network. So, NAFCS decided to explore the latest technology.

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EdTech4Beginners

AUGUST 6, 2022

Data Privacy for Startups. Starting a new business can be challenging, but incorporating data privacy from its inception need not be. However, data privacy is rarely considered in the face of new ideas, marketing efforts, and other things. The following data privacy checklist is all you need for your startup.

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Catlin Tucker

MARCH 1, 2021

The more physical distance between the teacher and the learner, the more challenging it is to collect formative assessment data consistently. The aspect of teaching that is hard to replicate in the online environment is the teachers’ ability to collect informal data by merely listening and observing.

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EdTech Magazine

MAY 6, 2021

It achieved these increases by taking a closer look at its student data, with the help of Randall Sampson. The Ohio high school additionally saw a 35 percent increase in students’ scores on AP exams rising from 3 to 4. Sampson was an administrator at Westerville City School District at the time. Now, he works as the chief curation…

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Over the past few months, district and charter leaders from 11 districts participating in Digital Promise’s Data Ready 2021 cohort have created actionable data interoperability implementation plans centered on a high-need use case anchored in secure data use, data management, and data integration.

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EdTech Magazine

JUNE 27, 2023

Schools collect sensitive student data that will follow them for the rest of their lives. As one of the most popular ed tech platforms for K–12, Google Workspace for Education offers advanced tools that can help schools boost data privacy. DIG DEEPER: Here’s how Google creates a more secure workspace for teachers and students.

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Education Elements

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

If our cliches are an indicator, we all know that data collection, review, analysis, and understanding is important. We all hear of data-driven decisions, and the importance of data in education and educational systems, but we are often challenged to incorporate data review and the next steps into our everyday lives.

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EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 21, 2020

But there’s another need that K–12 administrators should also prioritize, experts say: data privacy. Most of these technology systems are in the cloud , and there is data being transferred back and forth, so that piece of the puzzle has to be fortified and secured.”.

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eSchool News

JULY 11, 2023

Professional Learning The EdTech-related professional learning topics that were of most interest to respondents—cybersecurity, driving and sustaining K-12 innovation, and data governance/privacy—directly align with district needs.

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EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Data Driven Instruction: How Student Data Guides Formative Assessments. When it comes to assessing student knowledge levels, data has empowered more schools to choose formative assessments versus summative assessments. . eli.zimmerman_9856. Tue, 10/16/2018 - 11:44.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 23, 2022

The post How Districts Are Using Data to Improve Educational Equity appeared first on Digital Promise.

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