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Student Data Privacy: What’s Your Obligation?

Tom Murray

However, the misuse and breach of digital student information has brought data privacy to the forefront. House Education and Workforce Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education and the U.S. A few months prior to the hearing, data breaches at both Home Depot and Target became national news.

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Making Sure Your Online Services Protect Your Students’ Data

edWeb.net

While a Learning Management System may be used to collect and provide information about classes, calendars, and assignments, there may also be a separate Student Information System that holds the data on each student’s schedules, grades, and other records. Reg Leichty.

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What You Need to Know About Teaching Cybersecurity

edWeb.net

In a recent edWebinar , Casey O’Brien, Executive Director, National CyberWatch Center, and Jim Kowatch, CEO, Infosec Learning, underscored that to fill the demand for cybersecurity experts, secondary and higher education should focus their attention on developing cybersecurity courses that are rooted in IT operations and applications.

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

Edsurge

AI shows up in instructional chatbots, personalized learning systems and administrative tools. Moreover, since effective AI solutions require large amounts of information, maintaining student data privacy is an ongoing challenge. There is likely to be no field or industry untouched by AI before long.

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Remote Work May Transform Higher Education. But Will Printers and Alexa Undermine Its Privacy?

Edsurge

The report goes on to highlight six key technologies and practices that could provide comfort: cloud vendor management, endpoint detection and response, multifactor authentication/single sign-on, preserving data authenticity/integrity, research security, and student data privacy and governance.

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Hero Awards finalists: 18 schools and educators dedicated to learning

eSchool News

Sponsored this year by JAR Systems and SAP Concur , the program received an influx of inspiring nominations that highlight the innovation and selflessness of educators in schools and districts across the nation. Within days, they realized that students and teachers were using more than 2,000 edtech tools systemwide.

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

Doug Levin

Tagged on: March 19, 2017 The Top 10: Student Privacy News (Feb-March 2017) | Future of Privacy Forum → If you care about student data privacy, worth the read and worth signing up for the email newsletter. For experts, these sorts of apps come with privacy and best practice teaching concerns.

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