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A Real and Present Student Data Privacy Threat

Doug Levin

According to the study authors, schools and school districts define misbehaviors differently and attach different sanctions to similar behaviors – and significant disparities in suspensions and expulsions are well-documented (particularly affecting African American students and students with disabilities).

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

Edsurge

Between the creation of a social rating system and street cameras with facial recognition capabilities, technology reports coming out of China have raised serious concerns for privacy advocates. In 2015, the firm acquired the education technology platform, Promethean , a company that creates interactive displays for schools.

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Fayette County Public Schools Leverage Lightspeed Engagement and Impact to Streamline Edtech and Data Privacy Management

Lightspeed Systems

Overview OVERVIEW With a strong focus on data governance, Fayette County Public Schools partners with Lightspeed Systems® to effectively manage their edtech ecosystem—in and outside of the classroom. However, Fayette County knew that ensuring student data privacy on the school-issued devices was going to be a challenge. “We

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Will New York Do the Right Thing on Facial Recognition in Schools?

Doug Levin

For those who care about the evolving terrain of student data privacy and civil liberties issues in schools, you may know that the actions of Lockport (NY) Public Schools – and their defiance of the advice of the New York State Department of Education – have become a defining case. No Description.

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Campus Edtech Has Shifted Focus From Tech to Ed

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This op-ed is part of a series of reflections on the past decade in education technology. It means that the software developers put effort into studying and supporting the needs and workflows of the users (mainly professors). It is this second shift—the move to data—that will define the shift in edtech over the next decade.

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When Does Posting Photos of Students Become a Data Privacy Problem?

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“Even photos without directly attached PII hold the potential to quickly become PII violations in years to come due to expanding facial recognition technology and this technology’s use of publicly available photos (like those we studied).”

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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 17 Edition)

Doug Levin

Absent an ethical framework to guide our decisions, I am increasingly of the mind that the answers to the important questions about educational technology are ‘turtles all the way down.’ A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 17 Edition). STAT → Is this the future of edtech? What do I mean?

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