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Lightspeed Systems’ New ‘Digital Equity’ Module Provides Actionable Insight Into Students’ Internet Connectivity And School-Issued Device Health When Learning Outside of School

eSchool News

Leaders can drill-down into specific data on each individual student and their devices, as well as view overall district-wide usage to help identify local communities that need additional support and resources. Digital Equity is customizable, giving leaders the option to turn on specific data and usage stats.

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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. 3:10 one of the clear reasons is the proliferation of digital learning so the student doesn’t have access. Thank you.

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Generative AI and Academic Integrity

Lightspeed Systems

In effect, the students believed it was not cheating. Teachers and other stakeholders should also have considerable input into ethical considerations like student data privacy, potential bias, and misinformation associated with AI tools. Two vitally important considerations concern student data privacy and digital equity.

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16 Great NonProfits Working to Support EdTech in Schools

Tom Murray

Project Tomorrow works to support the innovative uses of science, math and technology resources in K-12 schools and communities, so that students will develop the critical thinking, problem solving and creativity skills needed to compete and thrive in the 21st century. The organization also organizes the Speak Up survey each year.

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

eSchool News

The Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) today released a new report — with accompanying survey findings — that reflect the urgent need to provide improved student privacy support to teachers, parents, and students. The recommendations were shaped by surveys and focus groups commissioned by CDT.

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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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