EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2019

When developing this year’s theme for the annual conference of the Consortium for School Networking , we decided to build the event around changing mindsets. New resources on student data privacy. Our Driving K-12 Innovation: Hurdles & Accelerators report. CoSN2020 will be a highlight for any ed tech leader.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 9, 2023

Public schools are online just as much as their students, it seems, with profiles across social media. Their Facebook pages contain not just announcements but photos from events on campus—graduations, Christmas band concerts, chess team tournament victories, spirit week—where students take center stage.

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 3, 2019

While accessing technology once required a multistep process and was severely limited in the classroom, 74 percent of K–12 schools say they now have more than one device per student, according to a CoSN report. Keep this page bookmarked for articles and videos from the event. by Eli Zimmerman.

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Edsurge

JUNE 23, 2020

based membership association will no longer hold its annual education technology conferences, once staple events for industry leaders. Its 2020 summer conference, originally scheduled for May, convened virtually—but not without losing substantial revenue that it normally generated from its in-person event.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Candidly, this was not something we expected to see,” said Elizabeth Laird, senior fellow on student privacy at the CDT, during an online event with education reporters. Those students may also be subject to bias and profiling that is sometimes inadvertently baked into the technology they use.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

4) 2023 Driving K-12 Innovation CoSN’s Driving K-12 Innovation 2023 series continues to provide trend reports that support the integration of emerging technologies in education. Natural disasters can be spontaneous events, requiring school system leaders to implement and train team members on procedures so that they can act swiftly.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

4) 2023 Driving K-12 Innovation CoSN’s Driving K-12 Innovation 2023 series continues to provide trend reports that support the integration of emerging technologies in education. Natural disasters can be spontaneous events, requiring school system leaders to implement and train team members on procedures so that they can act swiftly.

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Doug Levin

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

No commentary this week (not for a lack of things to say, just time), but one quick update: TV news reports of school cyber incidents are quite telling: sometimes for what they report, sometimes for how they report, sometimes for what they omit. No endorsements; no sponsored content; no apologies for my eclectic tastes.

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Doug Levin

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

No commentary this week (not for a lack of things to say, just time), but one quick update: TV news reports of school cyber incidents are quite telling: sometimes for what they report, sometimes for how they report, sometimes for what they omit. No endorsements; no sponsored content; no apologies for my eclectic tastes.

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EdTech Student Data Privacy Social Media Industry 150

Edsurge

DECEMBER 24, 2018

At this time of the year, some businesses are busy filing expenses and reports. 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. Much of the buzz surrounding Apple’s events focus on new gadgets like the iPads.

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Edsurge

MARCH 8, 2017

Approximately 13,000 SXSWedu attendees scurry back and forth from the Austin Convention Center to massive hotels in the center of the city, noses glued to their phones as they search for the next event. EdSurgents captured these tidbits in our reporter notebooks—take a look below. Who Said What?

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 20, 2015

April 20th - May 4th, 2015 Two Week Calendar | Learning Revolution Events | Learning Revolution Blog | Partner Spotlight To subscribe to this newsletter, please sign up at LearningRevolution.com. All events are listed in US-Eastern Time. For a full calendar of all upcoming events and conferences, click here.

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Edsurge

MARCH 16, 2020

It notes that, when a confirmed case has entered a school, some institutions may need to “dismiss students and most staff for two to five days,” while for others, “school dismissals and event cancellations may be extended if advised by local health officials.” Check out these EdSurge reported articles and op-eds on the topic.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 13, 2018

Thirty years ago, Channel One offered schools nationwide $30,000 worth of audiovisual equipment at no cost in exchange for requiring students to view a daily current events program during class. Revelations about the privacy practices of Facebook only serve to underscore the stakes surrounding the capture and use of personal data.

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Edsurge

MARCH 10, 2020

When the event was canceled, we asked the panelists to do the session remotely instead. Our guests include: Barbara Fister, a longtime academic librarian who is also serving as a scholar in residence at Project Information Literacy, where she just worked on a report called “Information Literacy in the Age of Algorithms.”.

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Lightspeed Systems

AUGUST 14, 2023

However, it can also turn learning environments into the digital wild west, where teachers and students can venture into new, uncharted territories with digital learning apps that may not be effective or aligned with district curriculum or student data privacy policies.

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edWeb.net

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Report highlights. No matter what the subject, though, every publisher should be ready to share their student data privacy standards for their digital tools. Previously, about half of the students in the United States were in adoption states, but the number of pure adoption states has decreased. Join the Community.

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edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Digital tools are part of students’ virtual communications backpack with their teachers and schools and are becoming vital to academic achievement, which Project Tomorrow and Blackboard highlight in their joint report Strengthening the Bonds of Communications. Student data privacy and online safety are significant concerns.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 13, 2022

The program gives students technology skills that can lead them into the future. The district also holds several events inviting staff to learn about technology tools and strategies for the classroom. These interventions ensure that students are being equipped with the best possible skills practice to achieve academic growth.

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Shake Up Learning

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Students can write original, creative stories, biographies, retell a historical event, retell from a new perspective, tell a math word problem as a story, tell a story of a science experiment, etc. Students complete homework or classwork assignments through the ASSISTments platform.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Via The Wall Street Journal : “The federal government is pumping $245 million into the creation and expansion of public charter schools across the nation with hopes of helping students in low-income communities.” ” Via the Data Quality Campaign : “ Student Data Privacy Legislation : A Summary of 2016 State Legislation.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

The Horizon Report. The organization, which was founded in 1994, was best known for its annual Horizon Report, its list of predictions about the near-future of education technology. But as the ed-tech sector is never willing to let a bad idea die, the report will live on. The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade.

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Hack Education

JUNE 8, 2018

” Elsewhere in North Carolina , Dana Goldstein reports for The NYT on “What Budget Cuts Mean for Third Graders in a Rural School.” Via The Hechinger Report (and related to a lot of the goings-on in the local education news section above): “ How one test kept New York City high schools segregated.”

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