Digital Promise

APRIL 16, 2020

The Seeking Well-being micro-credential helps students develop lifelong health and wellness practices, while the Belonging & Caring micro-credential focuses on students having a consistent group of peers and adults to share what’s happening and develop a sense of belonging. Collaborating with peers and colleagues.

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Securly

MARCH 5, 2024

.” Josh Knutson VP New Product Innovation, Securly Securly Discern is a giant leap forward, both in terms of helping to transform the way schools operate and how students ultimately learn and are taught successfully. Why not join our upcoming Discern group demo? You can learn more about Securly Discern here. Sign up here.

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Doug Levin

JUNE 18, 2019

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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Edsurge

MAY 1, 2019

Called Check the Privacy , the initiative, announced Wednesday, aims to provide a one-stop shop for educators searching for safe, secure tools to use with their students. A screenshot of Check the Privacy's searchable library of more than 7,000 edtech products. We’re all trying to solve the same problem.”

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Edsurge

JANUARY 9, 2023

It’s that sharing of student photos, especially those with identifying information, that has researchers questioning what the implications may be for student privacy and whether it’s ethical for schools to post pictures at all. One group of researchers analyzed 18 million photos posted by U.S.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 27, 2020

And oftentimes, they’re coming from parties that have not typically had a voice in this conversation: parents, teachers and students themselves. The results offer an “unprecedented look at data privacy,” said Adam Burns, chief operating officer at Edge Research, which conducted the surveys.

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eSchool News

APRIL 22, 2015

Blackbaud is committed to protecting sensitive student data and security,” said Travis Warren, president of Blackbaud’s K-12 Private Schools Group. The Pledge will better inform our customers, service providers and the general public of our dedication to protecting student privacy.”

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EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 6, 2019

So valuable is this data that criminals will pay as much as $350 for a student record on the black market , Melissa Tebbenkamp, co-chair of the Consortium for School Networking ’s working group on student data privacy, tells Education Week. .

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eSchool News

JANUARY 24, 2018

While participating in one of CoSN’s working groups, I began identifying which student-data-privacy principles were really important to us as school districts and what it meant to be a district as an exemplar in that area.

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Neo LMS

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Regarding privacy and phishing at the university level. Phishing scams involve sending emails to a large group of people, such as a university’s student body, that appear to be from a reputable company or individual. But it’s not only finances at stake where student data privacy is concerned.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 25, 2016

In the last year, a new #DPLIS work group was formed to build a community of practice to vision, implement, and support innovative library programs in League districts. Digital citizenship, content curation, making and coding, student data privacy, blended learning, open educational resources.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Check out the Cybersecurity Leadership Game , a valuable group cybersecurity professional development tool. Read “ Making the Case for Increased Investment in Cybersecurity ,” which identifies actions a school system IT staff can take to better defend IT infrastructure. Preview the CoSN TLE Seal Application.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Check out the Cybersecurity Leadership Game , a valuable group cybersecurity professional development tool. Read “ Making the Case for Increased Investment in Cybersecurity ,” which identifies actions a school system IT staff can take to better defend IT infrastructure. Preview the CoSN TLE Seal Application.

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techlearning

JULY 23, 2018

and the MLB All Star game were the backdrop for the inaugural CoSN Student Data Privacy Workshop. This seal program is the “nation’s only data privacy seal for school systems” that recognizes school districts’ commitment to high standards around student data privacy. Washington, D.C.

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EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 18, 2019

So valuable is this data that criminals will pay as much as $350 for a student record on the black market , Melissa Tebbenkamp, co-chair of the Consortium for School Networking ’s working group on student data privacy, tells Education Week. .

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EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2019

So valuable is this data that criminals will pay as much as $350 for a student record on the black market , Melissa Tebbenkamp, co-chair of the Consortium for School Networking ’s working group on student data privacy, tells Education Week. .

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EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 19, 2019

So valuable is this data that criminals will pay as much as $350 for a student record on the black market , Melissa Tebbenkamp, co-chair of the Consortium for School Networking ’s working group on student data privacy, tells Education Week. .

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EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 9, 2019

So valuable is this data that criminals will pay as much as $350 for a student record on the black market , Melissa Tebbenkamp, co-chair of the Consortium for School Networking ’s working group on student data privacy, tells Education Week. .

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EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 18, 2019

So valuable is this data that criminals will pay as much as $350 for a student record on the black market , Melissa Tebbenkamp, co-chair of the Consortium for School Networking ’s working group on student data privacy, tells Education Week. .

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EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 12, 2019

So valuable is this data that criminals will pay as much as $350 for a student record on the black market , Melissa Tebbenkamp, co-chair of the Consortium for School Networking ’s working group on student data privacy, tells Education Week. .

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Neo LMS

MARCH 22, 2018

Targeting the digital information of an individual student, or group of students, allows marketers to advertise biased, fake, or malicious propaganda or files; this acts as a calling sign for criminals who are looking for vulnerable victims. Remember, never share or write down any required passwords to parental controls.

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Edsurge

JUNE 23, 2020

Last week, the Software and Information Industry Association (SIIA) announced that its education technology group will no longer operate as its own division beginning July 1. What was once the premier, must-go conference in the education technology industry is now going away.

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EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 18, 2019

So valuable is this data that criminals will pay as much as $350 for a student record on the black market , Melissa Tebbenkamp, co-chair of the Consortium for School Networking ’s working group on student data privacy, tells Education Week. .

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EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 11, 2019

So valuable is this data that criminals will pay as much as $350 for a student record on the black market , Melissa Tebbenkamp, co-chair of the Consortium for School Networking ’s working group on student data privacy, tells Education Week. .

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Doug Levin

MAY 18, 2015

School district practice represents the weakest link in protecting student data privacy and security. And, even if school districts have enough qualified IT staff, they aren’t necessarily being provided with the training and/or ongoing support to stay current in what is a continuously evolving field.

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Edsurge

MARCH 10, 2020

based provider of learning management software for K-12, higher ed, government and businesses, has agreed to sell its Open LMS business to Learning Technologies Group, or LTG, a London-based conglomerate of workplace learning software services. LTG will maintain the existing Blackboard student data privacy policy.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Was their children’s private data going to be safe even outside the district’s hands? Baltimore County has become a leader in student data privacy and security, and is one of only 13 districts in the nation to earn a Trusted Learning Environment seal from CoSN, the membership group representing the nation’s K-12 school technology leaders.

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edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

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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Edsurge

JUNE 13, 2017

Chad Marlow, ACLU Counsel According to the Future of Privacy Forum (FPF), a Washington, D.C.-based based nonprofit, states have passed approximately 110 laws since 2013 concerning student data privacy. But what happens in these legislative halls are rarely visible to teachers, students and parents.

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Edsurge

JULY 22, 2019

I am also part of a small group of neighboring district leaders. We like to see what people’s obstacles are and how, as a group, we can come up with solutions and problems. Then there are teachers who go out and find resources to use but have no idea about the ramifications of connecting students to those services.

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Doug Levin

APRIL 27, 2017

Plus, their servers often have the RDP protocol enabled as students want to access course material from home. Unfortunately, that makes the servers a prime target for the xDedic group as well." A major contributing factor to the disparities continues to be the lack of appropriate instructional materials."

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Edsurge

MAY 23, 2017

This annual event aims to accelerate the development and adoption of data standards that allow technologies used in schools to “talk” to one another. What if there were a way to correlate students’ engagement with a digital curriculum or blended learning program to their grades?

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edWeb.net

JUNE 12, 2020

This will require further funding and technological solutions to deal with the vast inequality between the students who have full and fast access to online education, and the many students who still do not. He has started having small-group discussions with school principals to learn about key issues and what can help to resolve them.

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Graphite Blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

With that in mind, I wanted to share with you what's coming in the new year to help you take on the issue of privacy. Since 2014, we've been working with a group of school districts around the country to develop a standard for evaluating edtech, specifically around safety, compliance, privacy, and data security.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 17, 2017

“The first line of defense in protecting student privacy are our teachers, and we’re not making sure that they have the tools to keep that data safe,” said Amelia Vance, policy counsel for the nonprofit Future of Privacy Forum.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 26, 2016

Last week undergraduates at Harvard University raised concerns about the institution handing over their data to an anti-affirmative action group as part of a lawsuit. Universities are going to have to start selling students on the notion that they’re doing all that they can to protect their data,” Litton says.

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Doug Levin

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

For over 40 years the Wyoming Department of Education (WDE) ran a program to support this vulnerable student population, but that has come to an end - in part because of student data privacy concerns. Tagged on: September 7, 2017 When can schools punish students for racist social media posts?

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