The CoolCatTeacher

JULY 31, 2022

Today’s guest, Al Kingsley, has worked with edtech for over thirty years. Episode #788 - The 10 Minute Teacher Podcast The Future of Edtech Al Kingsley, Thought Leader. Resources in The Future of Edtech episode 788. Al Kingsley is CEO of the EdTech company NetSupport and is Chair of a Multi-Academy Trust.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

As students return to another school-year impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, a new report sheds light on how state education agencies and policy-makers are adapting to an increasingly digital, post-pandemic world. However, 57% of respondents report that their states provide very little funding for school cybersecurity efforts.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Yet, when it comes to edtech, the consensus industry-wide is that recommendations from your peers mean nothing when compared to data points. Don’t get me wrong – efficacy studies are crucial when comparing edtech solutions in the procurement decision process. Edtech evaluation is currently the Wild West.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Conducted in December 2023, the survey reflects the perspectives of 157 edtech leaders regarding talent gaps, business risks and employee pain points associated with leadership development in the U.S. K-12 edtech industry.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

As we wave farewell to 2023 , we’re looking ahead to edtech trends in 2024 with optimism for education as a whole. What are the projections for edtech? We asked edtech executives, stakeholders, and experts to share some of their thoughts and predictions about where they think edtech is headed in 2024.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 25, 2023

In fact, the DOE’s “Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Teaching and Learning” report recommends keeping humans in the loop with AI: “We envision a technology-enhanced future more like an electric bike and less like robot vacuums. Teachers look for instructional leadership from their district, state or the Department of Education (DOE).

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EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

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. eli.zimmerman_9856. Wed, 09/12/2018 - 12:18. by Eli Zimmerman.

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EmergingEdTech

APRIL 20, 2023

It is always a good time to review spending and look for possible savings United States schools spent over $27 billion on edtech in 2021. If your district is like many others, there’s plenty of opportunity to trim the fat in edtech budgets. Scrutinize apps with privacy policy changes. Edtech companies sell edtech.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 23, 2019

Unfortunately, too many of our investments in educational technology (edtech) have fallen far short of our civil rights aspirations. Taking a more critical look at edtech. Why do we hold edtech products to a lower standard than many other educational factors that interact with our students? We need to make a change.

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Lightspeed Systems

AUGUST 24, 2023

However, to achieve CIPA compliance, districts must adopt an Internet Safety Policy (ISP) that utilizes web content filtering technology to protect students from harmful online content while ensuring the security of their personal information as mandated by the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA).

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Editor’s note : This story on 10 back-to-school resources for edtech leaders originally appeared on CoSN’s blog and is reposted here with permission. CoSN Resources on AI offer insight, advice and peer experiences that will guide EdTech leaders in harnessing the power of AI to enhance learning.

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Edsurge

JUNE 11, 2020

Soon, schools would be inundated with sales pitches from edtech companies, and it didn’t take long before they started pushing back against those that seemed predatory. For the edtech industry, the pandemic poses a paradox. Yet this reality seems not to have dampened investor enthusiasm for private edtech companies.

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Securly

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

Now, we know that edtech has been proven to improve test scores and overall classroom engagement. But, how does the 2010 vision for edTech match what’s actually happening today? Given that many children were acquiring iPads for personal use, some schools adopted a Bring Your Own Device ( BYOD) Policy. 7 YEARS LATER… 1.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Editor’s note : This story on 10 back-to-school resources for edtech leaders originally appeared on CoSN’s blog and is reposted here with permission. CoSN Resources on AI offer insight, advice and peer experiences that will guide EdTech leaders in harnessing the power of AI to enhance learning. Explore the Dashboard here.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 10, 2017

A new report from the State Educational Technology Directors Association (SETDA) aims to clear up the murky waters surrounding the adoption of digital learning materials, a process that varies wildly between states. All four are profiled in case studies that detail their policies, funding allotments, adoption processes and notable challenges.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Federal facilitation of this type of information sharing is especially important in situations where teams otherwise lack incentives and/or mechanisms to share their experiences: Pilots who experience unexpected hazard conditions, such as large flocks of airborne geese or inoperative radio tower lights, are asked to report to Air Traffic Control.

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Doug Levin

JULY 5, 2015

I also have to be right up front about a few biases I have in my scan of the morning news, borne out of my interest and experience in advising education leaders about the use of technology to improve education: Yesterday’s reports, studies, and new stories may already be too dated to be actionable. Is this helpful?

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 3, 2023

In 2020, Nidhi Hebbar, a former education lead at Apple who later studied racial bias in ed tech at the Aspen Tech Policy Hub, co-founded the Ed Tech Equity Project. This story about racial bias in edtech was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education.

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Edsurge

JULY 26, 2021

China’s ballooning edtech market is suddenly deflating thanks to new government restrictions on lucrative private tutoring companies that serve millions of the country’s children. There seem to be multiple motivations for the policy shift. The new rules restrict both tutoring services and the profits they generate.

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Edsurge

JUNE 23, 2020

Instead, it will be absorbed into SIIA’s existing public policy division, which advocates for legislation on behalf of its members. It was early in offering programs that highlighted edtech,” says Frank Catalano, an independent industry strategist who previously served on SIIA’s education board. “It billion in U.S.

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EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 23, 2019

In 2018 alone, 122 incidents affected 119 public K–12 education agencies , a rate of about one new publicly reported incident every three days of the calendar year, according to The K–12 Cybersecurity Resource Center , which researches education, technology and public policy issues.

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EdTech Magazine

JULY 12, 2018

There are very few studies being done on the overall effectiveness of edtech interventions,” The Tech Edvocate reports. SIGN UP: Get more news from the EdTech newsletter in your inbox every two weeks! Investing in the wrong technology too quickly can lead to extremely risky situations. by Eli Zimmerman.

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Edsurge

JUNE 14, 2022

Users who follow Meta’s monetization policies can offer paid live events, allowing them to offer things like cooking classes or fundraisers. But recent reports have speculated that the company could “bootstrap an online course ecosystem.” Not A Gold Rush The edtech market may not seem as attractive to new entries at the moment.

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Edsurge

APRIL 17, 2023

Edtech has become inseparable from the education system. to find out which edtech products those schools most often use or recommend to students — as well as what risks those tools raise and whether schools are prepared to meet them. Vetting processes tend to mention privacy but are relatively fuzzy on the details, the report found.

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Edsurge

MARCH 3, 2020

spike in coronavirus cases, which currently numbers around 118 cases in 16 states , is leaving the edtech conference industry with an existential (if not quite Shakespearean) question at the start of its busy events season: to host or not to host? education or edtech event organizer has canceled or postponed their upcoming conferences.

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EdTech Magazine

MAY 21, 2019

MORE FROM EDTECH: Check out how data privacy concerns are expanding with education technology use. MORE FROM EDTECH: Hyperconvergence has arrived in mainstream K–12 data centers. Common Sense Education can help schools evaluate the privacy policies of their external applications and see how those policies align with regulations. .

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

2023 calculations by the UNESCO Global Education Monitoring Report reveal that fewer than 1 in 5 countries have legislation in place to prevent and act on cyberbullying in school. Cyberbullying in particular is fueled by a lack of proper policies and wide access to smartphones and other devices.

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Doug Levin

APRIL 27, 2017

Zeynep Tufekci shares her experiences more broadly (beyond education) in this provocative talk from June 2016: I’ll be spending some time later this week with friends and colleagues at the EdTech Efficacy Research Academic Symposium and look forward to the dialogue. A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 17 Edition).

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 18, 2023

The webinars, sponsored by Amazon Web Services (AWS) , served as a platform for gaining valuable insights from education leaders, policymakers and edtech product developers. Educator and edtech consultant Rachelle Dené Poth agrees, sharing how she encourages her students to use AI-powered tools in the classroom.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 13, 2017

to address an essential question: How might we collaborate to ensure evidence of impact, not marketing or popularity, drives edtech adoption and implementation? Although over $13 billion is spent on edtech each year, many of the decisions on which products to purchase, implement, and scale are not based on evidence.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 30, 2023

For some parents, researchers loaded up tablets with vetted apps designed to teach math skills, and then handed them to the families and walked away for six months, says Ariel Kalil, a professor at the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy and the director of the Center for Human Potential and Public Policy.

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Doug Levin

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Two news stories this week have turned my attention (again) to the issue of conflict of interest in education, technology, and public policy. Otherwise, here’s what caught my eye this past week – news, tools, and reports about education, public policy, technology, and innovation – including a little bit about why. and Marion L.

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ProfHacker

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

However, there were some other things right from the start that bothered us about the report. We have taken issue with other reports for similar issues. Near the end of the report, we became more skeptical, wondering if the methodology of this study warranted deeper scrutiny. We have many issues with all of this.

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter In Part 1 of “ Why Every School Needs and AI Policy Right Now ,” I shared the empirical evidence about Artificial Intelligence and how it is impacting our world and schools. Additionally, ChatGPT and other tools are not "mandatory reporters."

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

When new trends become the norm, report findings sometimes elicit more shrugs than surprise. Recent studies by Deloitte and the Gates Foundation have shed light into how educators engage with edtech. And about 70 percent of students say that they use edtech tools outside of schools on a weekly basis.

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Edsurge

MARCH 25, 2024

The ESAs often provide guidance, training and support to LEAs in selecting, implementing, and integrating edtech products into their educational programs. Without interoperability, data silos emerge, making it difficult for stakeholders to access and use the full range of capabilities offered by different edtech products.

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Doug Levin

APRIL 21, 2016

Note that the last category is the most subjective and one might reasonably argue some reports (including those conducted under contract with the U.S. Federal Program Evaluations and Program-Related Reports: The First-Year Implementation of the Technology Literacy Challenge Fund in Five States (American Institutes for Research, 2000).

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