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Remote Work May Transform Higher Education. But Will Printers and Alexa Undermine Its Privacy?

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An “uber trend” of remote work for higher education information security is coming, at a time when more connections are being forged between higher ed and other state data. Plus: printers, smart speakers and privacy (oh my!) — all in this Edtech Reports Recap. Why are data links important? The potential impacts, good and bad?

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

New brain science shows poor kids have smaller brains than affluent kids - The Washington Post The Art of Self-Directed Learning — John Holt GWS The ‘most powerful’ classroom innovation — by the $1 million teaching prize winner - The Washington Post Schooling an Industrial Proletariat : John Taylor Gatto Escaping the Education Caste System — John Holt (..)

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Trump's Edtech Agenda Should Address Effectiveness, Equity, and Equilibrium in Higher Ed

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radio and televisions in the early 20th century and online learning and MOOCs via the Internet in the early 21st century.) However, the questions have largely stayed the same: Do technologies ensure quality learning and positive student outcomes? Do they help or hurt underrepresented students? (Distance education took place via.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Via The Wall Street Journal : “The federal government is pumping $245 million into the creation and expansion of public charter schools across the nation with hopes of helping students in low-income communities.” ” Via the Data Quality Campaign : “ Student Data Privacy Legislation : A Summary of 2016 State Legislation.”

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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.” ” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Via The Blade : “School that took ECOT students wants poor scores ignored.” Data, Surveillance, and Information Security.

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Education Technology and Data Insecurity

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Many students cannot afford the heavy data usage required by geofencing apps, for starters. Furthermore, at launch, Pokémon Go demanded users sign over a great deal of personal data and grant permissions to the app that, for a time , gave it access to a user’s entire Google account. Surveillance starts early.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Indeed, Edutechnica, which also tracks LMS data, responds with their own numbers and says that Blackboard still has about two hundred more installations than Canvas and about a million more students using the software. Doesn’t that seem small?