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FETC 2019: Day One

eSchool News

Student Data Privacy. Edtech administrators and Edtech information technology administrators have many sleepless nights contemplating student data privacy and cybersecurity challenges in their districts. STEAM and STEM. Not surprising is the continued focus on STEAM, STEM, coding, and robotics.

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States bet big on career education, but struggle to show it works

The Hechinger Report

And in 2022, 36 states enacted policies promoting career training for high schoolers, college students, and adults, according to Advance CTE , a professional organization for state CTE leaders. Their inability to answer stems from disconnected data. In effect, students fall off the states’ radar when they start working.

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Year in Review: Our Top Edtech Business Stories of 2018

Edsurge

For a future that will be shaped by artificial intelligence, bioengineering, 3D printing and other technologies, how should society prepare its current students (and tomorrow’s workforce)? The conventional answer is STEM and computer science education. What Happens to Student Data Privacy When Chinese Firms Acquire US Edtech Companies?

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How Education is Becoming the Front Lines for Debating the Role of Algorithms

Edsurge

add caption here This week’s podcast is brought to you by “The State of Online STEM Education'' an upcoming national survey of the online STEM landscape created by Every Learner Everywhere and Online Learning Consortium. Short: I underwent that very formal legal process to try to get my data.

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Executive Briefs

techlearning

No matter how skilled, knowledgeable, passionate, or persistent school district employees are in building and attending to a student data privacy compliance program, the work simply cannot succeed without a leadership champion.

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5 Considerations for Buying Classroom Technology

EdTech Magazine

MORE FROM EDTECH: Read more about how investments can improve equity in STEM education. Alignment with Student Learning Goals and Standards. Technology should be used to support learning in the classroom, enhance instructional methods and positively impact student achievement. .

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Sony Vows to Bring “Blockchain” Tech to Education. Will It Take Hold in K-12?

Marketplace K-12

” One of the obvious questions about blockchain in the current education environment is whether it would become ensnared in the web of student-data-privacy concerns, which has tripped up many an ed-tech company and put K-12 district officials on edge.

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