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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 11 Edition)

Doug Levin

Tagged on: March 19, 2017 The Top 10: Student Privacy News (Feb-March 2017) | Future of Privacy Forum → If you care about student data privacy, worth the read and worth signing up for the email newsletter. It is a massive innovative market with supportive government policies and strong market demand.

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16 Great NonProfits Working to Support EdTech in Schools

Tom Murray

EveryoneOn is a nonprofit with a mission of “eliminating the digital divide by making high-speed, low-cost Internet service and computers, and free digital literacy courses accessible to all unconnected Americans.” Organization: EveryoneOn. URL: www.everyoneon.org.

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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. Again and again, the media told stories — wildly popular stories , apparently — about how technology industry executives refuse to allow their own children to use the very products they were selling to the rest of us. And “free” doesn’t last.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

But you’re full of fallacy yourself if you think that’s going to stop me from making critiques about this industry. ” Well, this was off campus, not on-: “ California lake trashed, University of Oregon students suspected.” ” From the NASBE : “Trends in Student Data Privacy Bills in 2016.”