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The Keys to Discussing Student Data Privacy

edWeb.net

Despite universal concerns about student data privacy, communicating school policies can quickly overwhelm school leaders. CoSN has stepped in with guidance for superintendents and principals to help them with several aspects of student data privacy, including best practices for informing the community.

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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. 10:22 And then trying to balance that out when high school kids do they follow their schedule elementary. What, what?

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How Should We Approach the Ethical Considerations of AI in K-12 Education?

Edsurge

Tools like Turnitin that check for plagiarism, intelligent tutoring softwares like Khan Academy or iReady that automate or personalize instruction, and chatbots like Alexa that answer student questions are all vulnerable to algorithmic biases in development and inequitable outcomes in implementation.

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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 16 Edition)

Doug Levin

The FAQ is a collaboration of many involved with the movement and includes an OER infographic , suitable for downloading and re-sharing. I’d encourage those interested in the OER movement to subscribe to the bi-weekly OER Digest (a joint project of SPARC and the Student PIRGs ) to stay up to date.

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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 16 Edition)

Doug Levin

The FAQ is a collaboration of many involved with the movement and includes an OER infographic , suitable for downloading and re-sharing. I’d encourage those interested in the OER movement to subscribe to the bi-weekly OER Digest (a joint project of SPARC and the Student PIRGs ) to stay up to date.

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Education Technology and Data Insecurity

Hack Education

The game was launched in July and despite mixed reviews, was downloaded some 10 million times the first week it was released. According to the Data Quality Campaign , “Student data privacy was a priority issue in state legislatures in 2016.”

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