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Securly Discern: The Future of AI in Education has Arrived

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Securly Discern is a revolutionary AI that generates insights based on students’ online activities and digital footprints, automating data collection and analysis for schools. This game-changing solution enables educators to gain a far deeper understanding of their school and students. Sign up here.

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Lightspeed Systems’ New ‘Digital Equity’ Module Provides Actionable Insight Into Students’ Internet Connectivity And School-Issued Device Health When Learning Outside of School

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AUSTIN, TX – Lightspeed Systems, the leader in safe, secure and equitable education technology, announces Digital Equity—a module that provides robust and real-time connectivity and device health data on students’ school-issued devices.

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SIIA, a Pioneering Convenor for the Edtech Industry, Scraps Its Conferences

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There were no vendor halls where salespeople demoed their tools. With schools shuttered and facing budget cuts due to the pandemic, priority issues include securing federal funding for schools to purchase technology, along with better safeguards for student data privacy, says Joseph.

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Profile of Asbury Park (NJ) Superintendent Sancha Gray

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When we rolled out our classroom tech demos, parents were pulling me aside, saying how much these programs (Read180, System 44, iRead, Math180) would have helped, how they wished they had this tech as kids. They trained volunteers to access Lexia’s reports and use the data to adjust direct instruction. Now they do.

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Lightspeed Learning Lab – Edtech Best Practices for a Smooth Return to School

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Make sure your tech stack is set up to support fundamentals such as student data privacy, emerging challenges like AI policy-making, and ongoing critical mental health and safety concerns. A lot of students don’t self identify. But it also created some data challenges. Is the data accurate?

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Via EdScoop : “ Google adds new terms to comply with Connecticut student data privacy laws.” Via Techcrunch : “ Facebook launches Youth Portal to educate teens on the platform, how their data is being used.” Data, Surveillance, and Information Security.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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That being said, if you’re using a piece of technology that’s free, it’s likely that your personal data is being sold to advertisers or at the very least hoarded as a potential asset (and used, for example, to develop some sort of feature or algorithm). It works well, that is, if you disregard student data privacy and security.

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