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Profile of Asbury Park (NJ) Superintendent Sancha Gray

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Monthly webinars will tackle topics such as Student Data Privacy: A Priority and Essential Commitment (October 8th) and Cyber Security: A Critical School District Priority (November 12th). They trained volunteers to access Lexia’s reports and use the data to adjust direct instruction. TECH USED ?

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T&L’S ISTE 2018 BEST OF SHOW AWARDS WINNERS

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The module goes beyond tracking app usage, and uses advanced data analytics to help educators discover which programs have the most influence, and inform plans to replicate, scale, or adjust resources accordingly. In addition, CatchOn helps district administrators mitigate student data privacy risks associated with unknown tool usage.

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Want to Organize Your Digital Assets?

EdNews Daily

There are many sites, some government supported, for free and open resources. Resource services, such as plagiarism checkers, online chat staffing, and special needs resources like speech therapy distance educators, YouTube, and more. Project based hybrids, such as software to run a robot, science instruments, and calculators .

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Hero Awards finalists: 18 schools and educators dedicated to learning

eSchool News

The district’s ability to quickly and efficiently supply devices to students, ensure remote access, and provide educational resources is a model other districts can follow. When the pandemic started, Upchurch knew this would permanently change how students learn. Nominee: District 49 Nominated by: LearnPlatform.

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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 11 Edition)

Doug Levin

Tagged on: March 19, 2017 Textbooks could be history as schools switch to free online learning | Philly.com → Garnet Valley is a district in the vanguard of a nationwide movement to ditch traditional textbooks for open-source educational resources on the web. That's a lot of computers.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Via Chalkbeat : “Robotics is bringing Betsy DeVos to Detroit for the first time as education secretary.” ” (“…She’s unlikely to encounter local students when she’s there.”). Data, Surveillance, and Information Security. National) Education Politics. Billion People?”

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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. Students recorded fellow students. Students recorded their teachers. They recorded school resource officers. As the decade went on, the arguments for surveilling students’ social media have changed several times.

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