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

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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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5 Essential Tools for Protecting Student Privacy Online

Fractus Learning

Protecting student privacy and making sure online environments are safe and secure is a very big deal. We have digital landscapes that are constantly evolving and students who are more and more confident exploring online without instruction or supervision. The Importance of Student Data PrivacyEdmodo blog.

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Year in Review: Our Top Edtech Business Stories of 2018

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Yet it can be tedious to manually keep track of how students interact with different pieces of software—or whether these tools are even being used. Rather, it lies in two tools that could make Apple devices and education apps more convenient to deploy and manage in the classroom. billion on education software each year.

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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. Affluent students get to digital tools for creative exploration; poor students get to use theirs for test prep. In an era before Facebook or Edmodo, the social networking site Ning was, for a time, quite popular with educators.

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