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How Education is Becoming the Front Lines for Debating the Role of Algorithms

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EdSurge: Barbara, your group, Project Information Literacy, recently published a report where you sat down with professors and students to talk about algorithms and how they’re impacting our lives. Short: I underwent that very formal legal process to try to get my data. How did you go about the study?

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Executive Briefs

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No matter how skilled, knowledgeable, passionate, or persistent school district employees are in building and attending to a student data privacy compliance program, the work simply cannot succeed without a leadership champion.

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T&L’S ISTE 2018 BEST OF SHOW AWARDS WINNERS

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This device can be applied across a variety of activities, from literacy groups to ELL lessons. In addition, CatchOn helps district administrators mitigate student data privacy risks associated with unknown tool usage. During the simulation, a group of participants is given a challenge to solve.

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Hero Awards finalists: 18 schools and educators dedicated to learning

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Stay tuned, because the second group of finalists will be featured on eSchool News next week! The school recently built a new center for science and arts outfitted with new, cutting-edge Samsung solutions that provide an ideal space for students to foster STEM skills, such as critical thinking, communication, and creativity.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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.” (“…She’s unlikely to encounter local students when she’s there.”). Department of Education Announces STEM , Computer Science Education Grant Opportunities.” Homework help company Knowbox has raised $100 million from YF Capital and TAL Education Group. It’s raised $155.8

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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It works well, that is, if you disregard student data privacy and security. No doubt, some of these videos helped highlight the violence that students — particularly students of color — face at the hands of disciplinarians. Certainly “free” works well for cash-strapped schools. And “free” doesn’t last. Peter Thiel.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” Via International Business Times : “Who Funds Conservative Campus Group Turning Point USA ? Private school chain Fusion Education Group has raised an undisclosed amount of money from Leeds Equity Partners. “ Oxford and Cambridge are said to be illegally spying on students for money,” says Quartz.

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