Edsurge

OCTOBER 8, 2021

What should teachers be expected to know about student data privacy and ethics? Considering so much of their jobs now revolve around student data, it’s a simple enough question—and one that researcher Ellen B. What are ethical and responsible uses of data? Mandinach and a colleague were tasked with answering. What is privacy?

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Neo LMS

MAY 2, 2017

Students are particularly excited about all of the new possibilities digital learning can offer. Why do kids love e-learning? Social media channels provide the digital alternative for the “traditional” social life and support communication within online communities non-stop.

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A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 29, 2017

As Senior Fellow with the International Center for Leadership in Education (ICLE), I have worked with a fantastic team to develop services and tools to help districts, schools, and organizations across the world transform teaching, learning, and leadership. One of these tools is the Digital Practice Assessment (DPA).

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Neo LMS

JULY 29, 2021

Understanding challenges that may arise in the education sector is key to developing practical solutions to streamline teaching and learning. There are several ways edtech providers can get insights into potential problems in learning institutions. Read more: How to get started with hybrid teaching.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 17, 2023

By the time students reach me in high school, they are already juggling multiple social media accounts and unknowingly driving many business and political decisions through their media consumption. One of my favorites is the “Social Media and Misinformation” presentation.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JULY 21, 2023

Use a VPN for studies & entertainment Using a VPN (Virtual Private Network) is a splendid cybersecurity tool that uses (AES-256) to protect your data from prying eyes. A VPN offers a secure and private connection, protecting sensitive information and research data from potential cyber threats.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Even so, data shows that TikTok is where students congregate these days. Middleton, the professor in Australia, says he was initially reluctant to embrace social media in teaching, and that he rarely uses Twitter himself and at one point canceled his Facebook account in protest. Sixty-seven percent of U.S. No,” Middleton says.

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EdTech4Beginners

DECEMBER 4, 2023

These programs are benchmarks in online computer science education, catering to diverse learning needs and career goals. Grasping the Breadth of the Curriculum Computer science is a diverse field, and its study encompasses various subjects like programming, algorithms, data structures, and more.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 18, 2023

From Stigmas to Selfies: The Power of Using Social Media in the Classroom. Break through the stigma surrounding social media and learn how you can utilize it to foster communication with parents, develop and model digital citizenship skills with students, and grow personally in your field as an educator.

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Learning with 'e's

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

We''re also in the age of the learner as their own node of production – it''s exciting to see students working with their teachers to create, organise, repurpose and share content on a global scale through social media and personal devices. How would you define digital learning? Learning is learning.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Technology is enabling learning like never before, with millions of students attending school remotely for some or all of their regular instruction this fall. Which technologies are collecting student data? How is that data being used? Who has access to it? And how long is it kept?

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Thanks to a $30 million gift from an alumnus, the small, selective college in Maine is establishing the Davis Institute for Artificial Intelligence , which aims to integrate machine learning, natural language processing and big data into instruction and research across the college. “We

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Edsurge

AUGUST 11, 2016

A researcher, theorist, educator, Siemens is the digital learning guy. He’s credited with co-teaching the first MOOC in 2008, introduced the theory of “connectivism”—the idea that knowledge is distributed across digital networks—and spearheaded research projects about the role of data and analytics in education.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Most districts are realizing that straightforward banning of ChatGPT and other tools only keeps the students without home access and data plans from using A toolsets. Certainly, none of us want to create additional digital inequities.

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Neo LMS

JUNE 25, 2019

Learning is more digital than ever and it will only continue in that direction. But along the advantages and immense potential of digital learning, threats are lurking in the binary universe as well. Digital security threats can come from new and unexpected sources. Today’s students are digital natives.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

OCTOBER 12, 2018

Citizen Science Projects – This is one of the student digital missions in my new book, Hacking Digital Learning with Missions. Students can help scientists and researchers with their quests to archive history or gather data to help find solutions to real world issues. Subscribe for FREE to receive regular updates!

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Tom Murray

JANUARY 12, 2016

As school leaders work to implement digital learning practices, they must commit to navigating roadblocks, problem solving, and planning for sustainable, systemic transformation. With school budgets being planned on a year over year basis, the concern over long-term sustainability for digital learning arises.

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Graphite Blog

JULY 30, 2020

To address this, we've pulled together a collection of short digital citizenship activities that students can complete independently, or with parents or caregivers. All the videos and games below emphasize the importance of digital citizenship as a foundation for digital learning. Digital Footprint & Identity).

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Doug Levin

AUGUST 20, 2017

In the absence of the weekly news round-ups, I took the time away to do some further writing and analysis: Everything’s Bigger in Texas…Including (Maybe) the Data Breaches , which details the ham-handed way in which the Texas Association of School Boards has communicated about their breach of personal information about Texas educators.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 1, 2016

Tennessee’s Wilson County Schools and Discovery Education announced a new six-year partnership supporting the creation of authentic digital learning environments in classrooms district-wide.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Video games? In the classroom? Absolutely not! The reasons why pile up quickly.

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techlearning

OCTOBER 15, 2018

This new collaboration enables PPSD’s educators to integrate Discovery Education’s Science, Math and Social Studies Techbooks into classroom instruction districtwide, creating dynamic digital learning environments for all students that will prepare them for life beyond the classroom.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 19, 2016

Student data privacy is quite a different topic from the headlines most people read concerning data breaches. Student data privacy concerns, specifically, center on the misuse of personally identifiable information, known by its acronym PII. Even if being done in the aggregate, there are still concerns of misuse.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 16, 2020

A new report published this week about undergraduates’ impressions of internet algorithms reveals students are skeptical of and unnerved by tools that track their digital travels and serve them personalized content like advertisements and social media posts.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Balancing access to educational resources with security needs remains a top challenge for school district IT leaders, according to new findings from the Speak Up Research Project for Digital Learning. The top concern with cloud applications among technology leaders is ensuring data privacy (58 percent).

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 28, 2023

The figure comes from 900 universities and colleges that provide employment data for about 370,000 full-time and 90,000 part-time faculty. That information is based on a survey distributed to adjuncts who are AFT members and, through social media, to adjuncts who are not members of the union; 1,043 responded.

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A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 18, 2015

Understanding how they are impacting teaching and learning will help guide your consideration of which tools are useful and how to best implement them. Image retrieved from https://l2lbyte.wordpress.com/learning-videos/ Currently, online tools. Unleash the power of digital tools and empower students to take ownership of their learning.

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EdNews Daily

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

One of the answers of our revolution is fingertip access to all recorded human data. Those data come with a price. We have access to all recorded misinformation as well, and we have some compelling research about cognitive and social development deficits linked to web access. Connection to data is a spectacular resource.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 17, 2021

Distracted learning isn’t effective. While many people claim they can multitask while learning new information, such as listening to music or scrolling social media, the data shows that learning and performance decreases significantly with each distraction.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Silver Spring, MD (Thursday, February 17, 2022) — Discovery Education and leading social impact partners are offering engaging, no-cost digital learning resources to students, teachers, and families to support National Engineers Week nationwide. About Discovery Education Discovery Education is the worldwide?EdTech?leader

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

From facial-recognition cameras to web and social media filtering software, surveillance technologies are finding their foothold in schools across America. Beyond the Hype: Adopting Predictive Analytics : Data analytics can only be as useful as how well they’re implemented. Tuesday, March 5 11:00 a.m.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 15, 2020

The harsh truth is that all of us—along with our private data—are often the target, and we are constantly at risk for cyber-crimes, regardless of how blissfully unaware we remain of the threat. We need to begin by deadbolting the funnel through which our data is transmitted so that only we have the key.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 25, 2021

Devising a positive economic case for a new online unit demonstrates that digital learning is not just a passing fad, but offers a compelling way forward, re-routing colleges away from a shaky on-campus-only fate. Without them, they are likely to flounder and not do well.”

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techlearning

MARCH 8, 2018

Eighty percent (80%) of parents say personal email is the most effective way for schools and districts to communicate with them, according to Speak Up data released by Blackboard Inc. When it comes to social media, this disconnect is large.

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ProfHacker

JANUARY 25, 2018

Through their newly formed Office of Digital Learning and Inquiry ( DLINQ ), headed up by Amy Collier , they’ve started a Digital Detox program. As described on the website: Digital Detox is a pilot initiative to reduce the toxicity of our personal digital environments and how we engage with them.

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edWeb.net

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Julie Evans, CEO of Project Tomorrow, and Christina Fleming, Vice President of Blackboard K12, presented the Speak Up 2019-2020 National Findings titled Digital Learning During the Pandemic: Emerging Evidence of an Education Transformation. Digital Learning During the Pandemic.

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Edsurge

MARCH 29, 2018

Or, as Aneesa Davenport, Social Media & Analytics Manager for EdSurge, suggested, perhaps give them a periodic “check-up?” Students should also be involved in decision-making efforts around what data is used and how that data is used, said Megan Raymond. Students need someone to help them make meaning of the data.

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