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How to Manage Student Devices for Remote Learning

Digital Promise

If students can’t access hotspots from home, create a “socially safe” zone in parking lots where parents can park and students can access wifi without leaving the car. Create learning resources and activities that can be done offline. Here’s a list of ideas for offline resources from Verizon Innovative Learning Schools.

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How Education is Becoming the Front Lines for Debating the Role of Algorithms

Edsurge

add caption here This week’s podcast is brought to you by “The State of Online STEM Education'' an upcoming national survey of the online STEM landscape created by Every Learner Everywhere and Online Learning Consortium. Short: I underwent that very formal legal process to try to get my data.

Education 101
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Evaluating and Informing EdTechInvestments through ActionableInsights in Virginia Beach

Lightspeed Systems

However, it can also turn learning environments into the digital wild west, where teachers and students can venture into new, uncharted territories with digital learning apps that may not be effective or aligned with district curriculum or student data privacy policies.

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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. On January 6, 2011, Aaron Swartz was arrested by MIT police and charged with violating federal hacking laws for using the MIT network to download millions of academic articles from the subscription service JSTOR. And “free” doesn’t last.

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