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What Some School Tech Leaders Think of Your Edtech Pitch

Edsurge

The nice thing about having those type of meetings is that the answer is, yes, people have been in that situation. Then there are teachers who go out and find resources to use but have no idea about the ramifications of connecting students to those services. People come in and say, ‘Hey, we’re looking for this.’

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

Lightspeed Systems

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. 1:40 Let’s start today by meeting our speakers. So you don’t want to forget them. 1:47 Sure Thanks everybody for joining.

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Chief Privacy Officers: The Unicorns of K-12 Education

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Denver Public Schools in Colorado and Baltimore County Public Schools in Maryland have each hired a senior-level official who is responsible for the organization’s privacy policies and data governance. It’s definitely a best practice to have somebody work to ensure privacy at that level.”

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Brainwave Headsets Are Making Their Way Into Classrooms—For Meditation and Discipline

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She says that both she and her research assistant were never given the names of the students chosen, and that the school’s administration reached out to the families of the selected students to ask for consent to be a part of the study. The study took place from October 2016 to February 2017.

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100+ Ways to Use a Chromebook in the Classroom – SULS033

Shake Up Learning

The App Hub is dedicated to bringing transparency to developers’ data and accessibility policies, and to help decision-makers find information about apps to meet the unique learning goals and policies of their school districts.”. I see the Chromebook App Hub as a bridge between developers and teachers and schools. ASSISTments.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” That’ll definitely bring back the coal jobs. ” Via Inside Higher Ed : “The University of Phoenix ’s online enrollment plummets while Western Governors and Southern New Hampshire near 100,000 students as they vie to rule the roost.” Data, Surveillance, and Information Security.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

It works well, that is, if you disregard student data privacy and security. Clickers” are definitely not new — indeed, in my research for Teaching Machines , I found examples of classroom response systems dating back to the 1950s. They spend several days meeting with educators in these places.

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