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When Does Posting Photos of Students Become a Data Privacy Problem?

Edsurge

Their Facebook pages contain not just announcements but photos from events on campus—graduations, Christmas band concerts, chess team tournament victories, spirit week—where students take center stage. For instance, it is increasingly recognized that predictive policing companies regularly collect and utilize public social media data.”

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In the News: Schools Should Delete Facebook

Doug Levin

Schools Choose Not to Delete Facebook Despite Data-Privacy Worries.” A school district page or group gives Facebook “another data point” on the users who visit it, said Doug Levin, the founder and president of EdTech Strategies, LLC. As quoted in: Schwartz, Sarah. Education Week. 6 April 2018.

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How to Become a Citizen Scientist

Ask a Tech Teacher

From pondering over simple natural processes such as the transitions between day and night to complex genomic studies , science has come a long way. Apart from careful studies conducted in complex laboratories, science also runs on data collection, observations, and statistical analysis.

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The SLIDE Study: A chat with Deb Kachel (Part 2)

NeverEndingSearch

The study emphasizes a critical equity issue: our most vulnerable students are those most impacted by a declining numbers of school librarians. I recently chatted with project director, Deb Kachel to dig a little deeper into what the study means and her hopes for its impact and use. This is a piece of hard data relating to equity.

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Practical AI Ideas for the Classroom

The CoolCatTeacher

Practical AI in the Classroom 00;00;06;20 – 00;00;35;12 Vicki Davis Hello, the 10 Minute Teacher is back with a special extended episode about Artificial Intelligence, something that I have been studying for several months. So, I said, “Give me some a real world data set of product sales to teach how to make a trend line graph in Excel.

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How Facebook Can Improve Privacy By Talking More With Academics

Edsurge

It has evolved into the most prominent data scandals in Facebook’s history, after personal information from some 87 million Facebook was passed along by Kogan to the political consulting company Cambridge Analytica. EdSurge: How did you get into studying issues of data privacy and social media?

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How This Teacher Brings Census Data to Life in the Classroom

Edsurge

For example, the data determines how much funding Title I students receive for hot lunch programs, how much their families must pay in registration fees and whether there will be resources for after-school activities. Sharing census details through the district’s Facebook, Twitter and Instagram accounts.

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