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Making Sure Your Online Services Protect Your Students’ Data

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After the sudden switch to remote and hybrid learning models at the start of the pandemic, the use of online tools and resources may seem like less of a concern now, but ensuring that studentsdata remains protected is still a priority, especially as it is a federal requirement. Identifying Trusted Apps.

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

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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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Education Technology and Data Insecurity

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I’ll look more closely at discrimination by design – in software and in algorithms – in the final article in this series.) Furthermore, at launch, Pokémon Go demanded users sign over a great deal of personal data and grant permissions to the app that, for a time , gave it access to a user’s entire Google account. .

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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It works well, that is, if you disregard student data privacy and security. Or the company will have to start charging for the software. The End of Library" Stories (and the Software that Seems to Support That). It works well too for teachers wanting to bypass the procurement bureaucracy. And “free” doesn’t last.

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