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Sony Vows to Bring “Blockchain” Tech to Education. Will It Take Hold in K-12?

Marketplace K-12

Sony Global Education , a company affiliated with the Japanese electronics corporation, defines blockchain as a decentralized network technology in which the same data are recorded and maintained on multiple nodes–computers connected to a network–that are geographically isolated.

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

Edsurge

Tools like Turnitin that check for plagiarism, intelligent tutoring softwares like Khan Academy or iReady that automate or personalize instruction, and chatbots like Alexa that answer student questions are all vulnerable to algorithmic biases in development and inequitable outcomes in implementation.

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100+ Ways to Use a Chromebook in the Classroom – SULS033

Shake Up Learning

So students will use the images in Haiku Deck to draw connections and deepen their understanding of their vocabulary words. Chromebook Idea Spark #3: Building Proportion Dolls Using G Suite, Khan Academy and Screencastify. Overview : “Teachers can struggle with teaching ratio and proportion concepts to students.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” “ Khan Academy introduces something big for little learners,” says the Khan Academy blog. Jeff Sessions remarks on student data privacy laws and how they may inhibit school shooting prevention efforts pic.twitter.com/h3mOcqWo1F — Caitlin Emma (@caitlinzemma) July 11, 2018.

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Four Student Data Privacy Issues Adults Should Be Aware Of

MindShift

In some cases, large amounts of student work, and literally millions of tiny interactions, are collected and stored in the cloud. Or all the interactions a student has with a Khan Academy math program. The major federal student privacy law on the books, FERPA , doesn’t have much to say about this avalanche of data.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

It works well, that is, if you disregard student data privacy and security. The popularity of sites like Khan Academy helped fuel the narrative that video could teach anything and that YouTube would “ reinvent education ” — funny, as Thomas Edison thought the same thing about film back in 1922.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Khan Academy launches free Official LSAT Prep ,” says the Khan Academy blog. Via Education Week : “‘Impenetrable’ World of Student Data Brokers a Major Concern, Study Says.” ” “So Long, SAT Essay. Labor and Management.