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K-12 Leaders Unite for ‘Check the Privacy,’ a One-Stop Shop for Safe Classroom Tech

Edsurge

But expecting teachers to wade through the legalese of every vendor’s privacy policy may be too much to ask for. That can prove tedious and inefficient—especially with most districts now running more than 500 edtech products per month. A screenshot of Check the Privacy's searchable library of more than 7,000 edtech products.

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Making Sure Your Online Services Protect Your Students’ Data

edWeb.net

Project Manager at IMS Global Learning Consortium, and Reg Leichty, Founder and Partner of Foresight Law and Policy. She graduated from Florida State University and received a Master of Library and Information Science from the University of South Florida. Kevin Lewis Sr. Kevin Lewis Sr. Reg Leichty.

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How Districts Can Unlock Actionable Data

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Along with a 1:1 goal, comes the deluge of edtech tools, software, and applications into classrooms. Data analytics tools give the visibility school districts need to transform data into meaningful and actionable insights. Mike Schwab has spent his career in finance, enterprise software sales and edtech. Suzy holds a B.S.

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The Challenges of Easy Data Access

edWeb.net

Tactical student data privacy questions like “What can I do right now?” should be asked by all CIO’s, teachers, administrators and policymakers in this changing landscape of data access, student privacy and interoperability. Fruth describes this new data access landscape as a teeter-totter effect.

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OPINION: What’s the high-tech tradeoff for students and teachers?

The Hechinger Report

Revelations about the privacy practices of Facebook only serve to underscore the stakes surrounding the capture and use of personal data. It is in everyone’s best interests to ensure that schools protect the digital rights of their stakeholders, putting the best interests of students and teachers at the center.”.

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Inside Tips for Successfully Implementing Online Assessments

edWeb.net

Whether schools are 1:1 or still relying on computer carts, the move to online assessments creates new needs from devices to professional development to data privacy policies. The budgeting team needs to understand the many roles of edtech as well. Online assessments will always raise student data privacy concerns.

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What’s New

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EDSBY UPDATES ( edsby.com/edsby-k12-dataaggregation-analytics/ ) Edsby announced that it has built sophisticated data aggregation and analysis capabilities that allow states, provinces and countries to optimize their education investments and policies. edtech market. VIVI ( www.vivi.io ) Vivi announced its entry into the U.S.