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Promethean Announces iKeepSafe Student Data Privacy Certification in the U.S. for ClassFlow Software

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COPPA : The Children’s Online Privacy Act (COPPA) is an FTC rule designed to ensure that parents remain in control of personal information collected from their young children online. About iKeepSafe. To view iKeepSafe’s list of assessed products, visit [link].

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6 things schools can do to ensure student data privacy

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Student data privacy is quite a different topic from the headlines most people read concerning data breaches. Student data privacy concerns, specifically, center on the misuse of personally identifiable information, known by its acronym PII. Controversy over weakened laws.

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What Do Teachers Know About Student Privacy? Not Enough, Researchers Say

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What should teachers be expected to know about student data privacy and ethics? Considering so much of their jobs now revolve around student data, it’s a simple enough question—and one that researcher Ellen B. Was that information included in codes of education ethics? It’s very much the floor.

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Instructure Is Back on the Stock Market, But Not Much Change Expected For Canvas Users

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The specific concern came over a statement by the company’s then-CEO, Dan Goldsmith, who boasted at an investor conference that the company was developing algorithms based on user data that would give it a competitive advantage in the market. And Instructure’s latest prospectus doesn’t mention big plans to use data or algorithms, notes Hill.

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CoSN2020: Annual Event Focuses on Breakthrough Mindsets

EdTech Magazine

She maintains that most technology is still designed like a desktop machine, commanding users’ full attention for them to receive any useful information. New resources on student data privacy. In her book, Case explores the idea that attention is not a widespread consideration in design. March 16 to 18.

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CoSN2020: Annual Event Focuses on Breakthrough Mindsets

EdTech Magazine

She maintains that most technology is still designed like a desktop machine, commanding users’ full attention for them to receive any useful information. New resources on student data privacy. In her book, Case explores the idea that attention is not a widespread consideration in design. March 16 to 18.

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CoSN2020: Annual Event Focuses on Breakthrough Mindsets

EdTech Magazine

She maintains that most technology is still designed like a desktop machine, commanding users’ full attention for them to receive any useful information. New resources on student data privacy. In her book, Case explores the idea that attention is not a widespread consideration in design. March 16 to 18.