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Making Sure Your Online Services Protect Your Students’ Data

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Kevin then moved on to work as an education technology specialist and headed a district’s student data privacy, internet safety, and security initiative. Analytics in Action is a free professional learning community on edWeb.net for school technology leaders, superintendents, curriculum and instructional leaders.

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How to ensure edtech ROI? Ask these 4 questions

eSchool News

Across New Hampshire, school leaders are searching for strategies to ensure that their edtech investments are being leveraged to pay dividends on student engagement, acceleration of learning, and saving teachers’ time. To explore how to increase the return on investment (ROI) of education technology, let’s take an inquiry approach.

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Reducing Online Security and Privacy Risk in Your School

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Bill Fitzgerald, Director of the Privacy Evaluation Initiative for Common Sense Media, provided simple ways to assess online privacy and security in “ Online Security, Privacy, and Risk: How to Avoid Becoming a Headline.” Join the Community.

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Critical Steps for Safeguarding Data Privacy

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During a recent edWebinar , sponsored by ClassLink and co-hosted by CoSN and AASA , the presenters discussed the policies and practices that also keep data safe in a digital education environment. Based on CoSN’s “ Student Data Privacy: A School System Priority. Stay current and compliant with federal and state laws.

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Critical Guidelines for Ensuring Data Privacy in Districts

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The panelists recommended superintendents provide a clear review of the district data privacy policy and compliance practices with their community early and often. Super-Connected is a free professional learning community for school superintendents, district leadership, and aspiring district leaders. Join the Community.

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K-12 Leaders on the Impact of Artificial Intelligence and Generative AI

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Reporting: Educate the school community about how to report incidents or concerns. Privacy and Security Measures: Review your student data privacy policy and practices and how they relate when using AI tools. For Miyashiro, access to AI for students is an ethical issue that addresses equity and fairness.

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Making The Best Technology Purchasing Decisions

The Web20Classroom

Reading terms of service is a start but asking questions like how much PII is actually needed for the software to run or how is the data stored or is it encrypted in transit and rest are some of the most basic questions to have solid answers to before allowing any company access to data sources.