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Digital Assistants in the Classroom

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It is a physical device connected to the Internet via WiFi that you can talk to, ask questions of, and get help from on particular topics. Because these are so new, there are questions regarding privacy, applicability to school, and COPPA (Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act) compliance for children younger than thirteen.

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Will 2019 Be the Year of Privacy? Five Things to Look for in Education

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Department of Education faced questions about how their teams were enforcing existing privacy regulations, and hardly a week went by without news of yet another significant cybersecurity incident. Data minimization is a fundamental privacy concept, already required under the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) and GDPR.

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Student Data Privacy: What’s Your Obligation?

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A few months prior to the hearing, data breaches at both Home Depot and Target became national news. In a few short months, the notion of student data privacy went from a topic that was rarely discussed by school leaders to one that was being discussed at length at the federal, state, and local levels. Local School Board Policy.

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Teachers' Essential Guide to Showing Movies and Videos in the Classroom

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If you're looking for more information about bringing media literacy into your classroom, we have tons of great resources and articles to help: News and Media Literacy Resource Center -- Here you'll find the best news and media literacy resources from around the web, as curated by our editors.

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Coronavirus FAQ: Everything Schools and Companies Need and Want to Know

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Related EdSurge article on this topic: Want to Help Schools Closed by COVID-19? Check out these EdSurge reported articles and op-eds on the topic. According to Erin Wilkey Oh, an executive editor at Common Sense Media, “Elementary school-aged students and even some middle schoolers have trouble fully understanding news events.”

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Equip Students to be Skilled Searchers!

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This is why one of the Mission Prep activities (pre-tasks) in my new book,In my new book, Hacking Digital Learning Strategies: 10 Ways to Launch EdTech Missions in Your Classroom (out soon) is to get students to do a quick 5 minute search about the Mission (topic). Below find six recommended kid search engines.

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Teachers' Essential Guide to Teaching with Technology

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For example, technology can be helpful for students researching and collaborating on a topic, but tech use should be limited or restricted during in-class discussion. Two major federal laws -- FERPA and COPPA -- protect student privacy and lay out clear definitions for what information is protected, who can access or share it, and when.