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What Happens to Student Data Privacy When Chinese Firms Acquire U.S. Edtech Companies?

Edsurge

William Carter, Center for Strategic and International Studies A particularly notable deal this year centers on Edmodo , a cross between a social networking platform and a learning management system for schools that boasts having upwards of 90 million users. million earlier this month.

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PROOF POINTS: What happens when private student information leaks

The Hechinger Report

How vulnerable is student data at U.S. That’s a critical question now that many, if not most, of the nation’s 51 million students are learning online at least some of the time. Certainly, it’s happening more frequently in our time of remote learning,” Levin added. schools is whether students have been harmed.

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Year in Review: Our Top Edtech Business Stories of 2018

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education—from curbing kids’ enthusiasm for learning to stifling new instructional practices and tools. But too often, he says, kids today “spend almost all their time in education learning how to do computation, and not leaving that to the computers” so they can focus instead on solving real-world, higher-level problems.

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5 Essential Tools for Protecting Student Privacy Online

Fractus Learning

More than 70 companies just signed a pledge to protect student data privacy. The Importance of Student Data PrivacyEdmodo blog. How Educators Can Protect StudentsData from Security Breaches. Student Privacy Pledge – Pledge to safeguard student privacy.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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It works well, that is, if you disregard student data privacy and security. Boundless’s materials have been archived by David Wiley’s company Lumen Learning. In an era before Facebook or Edmodo, the social networking site Ning was, for a time, quite popular with educators. And “free” doesn’t last.

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