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Drinking, Smoking and Sugar: How Unsavory Ads Wound Up on Edmodo

Edsurge

Beth Freeman logs in to her son’s Edmodo account from time to time to check on his homework assignments. edmodo so usually things don’t bother me but this is the ad that popped up in my 8th grade son’s social studies feed today. That the ad ever showed up on a student’s account was a mistake, Edmodo officials say.

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Mindful Tracking Cookie Policies Improve K—12 Data Security

EdTech Magazine

Mindful Tracking Cookie Policies Improve K—12 Data Security. Current web browsing policies in K–12 schools may be allowing third parties to collect and sell student data , creating a need for schools to update and maintain safe internet use protocols. For Chromebook users, Google has similar information available.

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Google Launches YouTube curriculum on Digital Citizenship

Educational Technology Guy

Google has a new curriculum on YouTube that helps teachers educate students on digital citizenship, including online safety, etiquette and more. Related: 10 Tech Skills Every Student Should Have 10 Important Skills Students need for the Future Edmodo - awesome free social learning network - has free Digital Citizenship poster for download.

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Teacher Absent? How Tech Can Bridge the Gap

Graphite Blog

The teacher-absence policy at my school was clear: The teacher isn't coming to school? But how does this policy affect students? Using apps like Animoto and Google Slides , they created visuals of how the desks would be arranged, what would be on the walls, and how the room would be used. No technology for the class.

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10 Killer iPad Projects Students Will Love #ISTE13

EdTechSandyK

Adding Images to Camera Roll - Using camera, screen shot, Internet images (integrate finding copyright-friendly issues here; for example, Google advanced search) Taking Video - horizontal, please! Edmodo Showbie - an app where teacher makes accounts and students can turn in work from iPad. Also check out Skype for educators.

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Privacy Tool fr @CommonSenseEd Pushes Companies to Make Safer Sites

The Innovative Educator

I’ve written about the privacy policies of some of the popular players in classrooms such as Microsoft, Google, Class Dojo, and Edmodo which you can read about at this link. In many cases that privacy policy you have to click to get access to the site takes more than an hour read. And, no wonder.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

”) It was certainly the outcome that investors were hoping for Edmodo , which raised $25 million in 2012, boasting that it had 15 million users. Remember Edmodo? Edmodo was one of the early stars of the most recent resurgence in ed-tech startup founding and funding (circa 2008 onward, that is).