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Research Shows the Need for More Support to Protect Privacy and Advance Digital Equity

eSchool News

These include prioritizing privacy-focused teacher training and proactively communicating with parents about how schools are protecting their children’s data. It can be easy to overlook hard-to-see issues like digital safety and student privacy during a time of crisis like COVID-19,” said CDT CEO Alexandra Givens.

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

Doug Levin

Tagged on: March 19, 2017 Textbooks could be history as schools switch to free online learning | Philly.com → Garnet Valley is a district in the vanguard of a nationwide movement to ditch traditional textbooks for open-source educational resources on the web.

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16 Great NonProfits Working to Support EdTech in Schools

Tom Murray

Organization: International Association of K-12 Online Learning (iNACOL). iNACOL provides a myriad of resources, white papers, and tools to implement a more personalized approach to technology infused learning and holds a Blended and Online Learning Symposium each year. URL: www.inacol.org. Organization: Maker Ed.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

.” Well, this was off campus, not on-: “ California lake trashed, University of Oregon students suspected.” Also off campus, not on-: “ Unemployed Detroit Residents Are Trapped by a Digital Divide.” ” From the NASBE : “Trends in Student Data Privacy Bills in 2016.”

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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. The implication, according to one NYT article : “the digital gap between rich and poor kids is not what we expected.” The real digital divide, this article contends, is not that affluent children have access to better and faster technologies. (Um,

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