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ISTELive 2022: Cybersecurity Tips and Trends to Protect K-12 School Systems

EdTech Magazine

We talked with Robert Olsen, senior managing director with Ankura, about how job postings and social media can provide unintended openings for threat actors. K–12 school IT leaders can take some small but powerful steps to help them properly manage cybersecurity and protect data privacy in their schools.

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22+ Tips on How to Work Remotely

Ask a Tech Teacher

All it took to get these remote systems started was a problem that required a solution and flexible risk-taking stakeholders who came up with answers. Their solution: Have teachers deliver content from their homes to student homes via a virtual set-up. And then, of course, there’s COVID shut-downs.

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How to Quickly Create, Send, & Translate a Parent Newsletter

Teacher Reboot Camp

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A Gullible Population Is a National Security Issue

The CoolCatTeacher

Social media has not shown an ability to “self correct” perhaps because by its very nature, the responses can only be positive and thus, there is no self-correcting mechanism built into its algorithm. Below are some of the ads that you may have seen on social media that were released as being traced back to Russian origin.

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How to Quickly Create, Send, & Translate a Parent Newsletter

Teacher Reboot Camp

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Digital Literacy Programs Prepare Students for a Tech-Enabled Future

EdTech Magazine

With 95 percent of teenagers in possession of mobile devices, students are constantly sharing and searching through social media platforms. . Being safe also means being aware of applications with built-in systems such as location services, which may share students’ information without their knowledge. .

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A Bored Student Hacked His School’s Systems. Will the Edtech Industry Pay Attention?

Edsurge

This week on the podcast we’re talking about cybersecurity at schools—and how secure, or in some cases how vulnerable, the tech systems in school systems are these days. Essentially these are the computer systems that store grades and the student records of his school.

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