User Generated Education

JANUARY 15, 2024

I love bringing physical computing into my classrooms: Physical computing refers to the use of tangible, embedded microcontroller-based interactive systems that can sense the world around them and/or control outputs such as lights, displays and motors. Graph points on the coordinate plane to solve real-world and mathematical problems.

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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 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

MARCH 14, 2022

But success on the job also relies on employees having access to a variety of technological tools, including software and hardware that support collaborative work, data searches and mobile operations in our 21st-century economy. Teachers in pre-K–12 school systems in the U.S. —

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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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Edsurge

MAY 17, 2024

With digital education platforms generating data on how millions of students are learning, they are also sitting on veritable information gold mines for researchers who are trying to improve education. Instead, we're taking the researchers’ questions to that 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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Edsurge

APRIL 10, 2024

Data-driven decisions are increasingly recognized as a critical component of K-12 education, enhancing personalized learning, improving assessment and feedback, optimizing resource allocation and fostering early intervention. Despite the benefits, implementing data-driven decision-making in education presents challenges.

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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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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 5, 2024

Fil Santiago, the district’s director of technology and administrative services, wanted to explore SaaS solutions so he prioritized migrating the student information system to the cloud. That first app led to another, and then another.

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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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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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EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Data-driven initiatives have helped schools improve student learning outcomes and measure technology ROI. The School District of Palm Beach County in Florida, for example, relies on its data systems to spot which students may be falling behind and need more academic support in a school that may be doing well as a whole. “We

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 6, 2022

During the throes of the COVID-19 pandemic, many school districts were quick to send devices home with students and to provide digital resources that may have been engaging, but may not have been as “data safe” as districts thought. Private equity firm is amassing companies that collect data on America’s children.

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EdTech Magazine

JUNE 13, 2019

How K–12 Schools Can Safeguard Student Data Beyond Graduation. So, what happens to the pile of data high school students leave behind when they graduate? Federal, state and district mandates dictate graduates’ data receive the same oversight and privacy protection required throughout their K–12 education. . eli.zimmerman_9856.

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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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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2024

Students chat about the data analysis they’ve performed on their cellphone usage over a week, while Perizzolo walks around the room fielding their questions. They also determined the research questions they’d ask of the data — such as whether social media use during class reduces comprehension and retention.

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TeacherCast

JULY 25, 2022

The coach opens up their coaching data dashboard and presents a series of charts, graphs, and meaningful information about what they have done during the school year complete with links to artifacts to projects they have worked on with both teachers and students. How can Data be Collected by Instructional Coaches? Does this make sense?

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

While there’s no arguing that enterprise-grade data analytics solutions are powerful, administrators need to consider how the approach taken to harness their data’s potential can significantly impact outcomes in the long-term. In effect, it would limit data access to only a few administrative employees. Not so fast.

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EdNews Daily

MAY 16, 2023

By Zach Vander Veen Part Three: Data is crucial In standards for Community Schools established by the Institute for Educational Leadership, data systems and protocols are in place to assure access to relevant individual and aggregate information and to assure transparency of decision-making.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

As a result of this increased investment in technology, schools are generating more valuable data than ever—but much of that data isn’t readily available and actionable because it’s siloed in systems that aren’t connected to each other. Below are some key considerations to keep in mind: Good data governance—which the U.S.

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EdTech Magazine

JULY 6, 2022

K–12 school IT leaders can take some small but powerful steps to help them properly manage cybersecurity and protect data privacy in their schools. We talked with Robert Olsen, senior managing director with Ankura, about how job postings and social media can provide unintended openings for threat actors.

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 2, 2019

CoSN 2019: CDW and Lightspeed Announce New Data Platform. CDW and Lightspeed Systems introduced a new data analytics platform for K–12 schools at the CoSN 2019 conference in Portland on Tuesday. President and CEO, Lightspeed Systems. amy.burroughs_26341. amy.burroughs_26341. Tue, 04/02/2019 - 23:25. Tweet text.

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EdTech Magazine

MAY 17, 2024

Cybercriminals are relentless in their efforts to gain access to as many organizations’ critical infrastructure systems or precious, confidential data as possible. This is especially true for the education sector, where school district data is essentially low-hanging fruit that can be sold on the dark web.

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EdTech Magazine

MARCH 11, 2016

By EdTech Staff A recently released report states that schools used $4 billion in federal Race to the Top grant money to make significant progress in areas such as state data systems and instructional resources for teachers.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Only a few years ago, before the pandemic, finding a school district with a dedicated leadership position focused on data privacy was like spotting a “unicorn”—something so rare it was practically mythical. million—and, last year, Maryland hired both a chief data officer and a chief privacy officer for districts in the state.

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Edsurge

MARCH 11, 2021

The health crisis has introduced new forms of data collection into higher education, but these are largely changes of degree, not kind. Stand up close, and you see little more than a collection of data points. And these humans have opinions about all the data their colleges collect from them. Their exams are recorded.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Now that so much college work is done digitally in learning management systems, many colleges are trying to analyze student data from those platforms to predict which students need help. Can big data from the LMS predict success in a class? The researchers focused on data from community colleges in Virginia since 2000.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Since last fall they’ve already submitted digital data about their demographics, household income, ethnicity and legal status, food intolerances, medical profiles, grades and socio-emotional skills. Every activity on computers and the software applications they use in class further generates data about them everyday.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 22, 2022

According to the data , it’s data-driven instruction. Let’s take a closer look at what keeps data-driven instruction from working in the real world. Nearly 90 percent of teachers think data is critical for effective classroom instruction. By the time teachers have classroom data that’s action-ready, it’s often outdated.

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Lightspeed Systems

AUGUST 24, 2023

Student welfare, of course, is comprised of many elements, including teaching and learning, student mental health, student safety, and, importantly, student data privacy. While never far from being top of mind for school district leadership and parents, recent news has brought the issue of student data privacy to even greater prominence.

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 18, 2019

Providers Rise to Meet the Challenge of K–12 Data Security. As data becomes integral to K–12 education, administrators face new challenges to ensure they keep students’ information safe. . This data can also be used to create student profiles , which educators can use to enhance their personalized learning programs. .

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edWeb.net

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Watch the Recording Listen to the Podcast The sudden release of ChatGPT to the general public in November of 2022 presented a number of new challenges to educational leaders, forcing them to add consideration of artificial intelligence (AI) systems to their to-do lists, which were already too long.

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EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Only a few months into the new school year, we’ve already seen a surge in ransomware attacks on schools and sensitive student data being leaked online. Ransomware poses the biggest threat to data privacy and security, and schools are the top target of these attacks.

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EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 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

OCTOBER 22, 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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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 24, 2024

While it won't replace the irreplaceable human touch in the classroom, AI can significantly enhance teaching and learning by offering personalization, efficiency, and insightful data analysis. AI-powered platforms can analyze student data, including test scores, past performance, and learning styles.

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