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Student Data Privacy: What’s Your Obligation?

Tom Murray

However, the misuse and breach of digital student information has brought data privacy to the forefront. House Education and Workforce Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education and the U.S. A few months prior to the hearing, data breaches at both Home Depot and Target became national news.

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Making Sure Your Online Services Protect Your Students’ Data

edWeb.net

While a Learning Management System may be used to collect and provide information about classes, calendars, and assignments, there may also be a separate Student Information System that holds the data on each student’s schedules, grades, and other records. Reg Leichty.

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States bet big on career education, but struggle to show it works

The Hechinger Report

That’s because Louisiana, like many states, lacks a system for tracking students once they enter the workforce. To follow students’ career paths, Rider and her colleagues must ask the graduates themselves for updates. That’s about what we can do right now because we don’t have the tracking system,” she said.

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Profile of Asbury Park (NJ) Superintendent Sancha Gray

techlearning

When we rolled out our classroom tech demos, parents were pulling me aside, saying how much these programs (Read180, System 44, iRead, Math180) would have helped, how they wished they had this tech as kids. READ 180, System 44, iRead, MATH 180 ? Google Classroom —Digital learning management system using Google apps ? TECH USED

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The Keys to Discussing Student Data Privacy

edWeb.net

Despite universal concerns about student data privacy, communicating school policies can quickly overwhelm school leaders. CoSN has stepped in with guidance for superintendents and principals to help them with several aspects of student data privacy, including best practices for informing the community.

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Lightspeed Learning Lab – Edtech Best Practices for a Smooth Return to School

Lightspeed Systems

Make sure your tech stack is set up to support fundamentals such as student data privacy, emerging challenges like AI policy-making, and ongoing critical mental health and safety concerns. Sessions will showcase techniques from Lightspeed Systems experts and include time for Q&A. What, what? 10:29 What is plotted?

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How Should We Approach the Ethical Considerations of AI in K-12 Education?

Edsurge

AI shows up in instructional chatbots, personalized learning systems and administrative tools. Moreover, since effective AI solutions require large amounts of information, maintaining student data privacy is an ongoing challenge. There is likely to be no field or industry untouched by AI before long.