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What Happens to Student Data Privacy When Chinese Firms Acquire U.S. Edtech Companies?

Edsurge

Between the creation of a social rating system and street cameras with facial recognition capabilities, technology reports coming out of China have raised serious concerns for privacy advocates.

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Instructure Is Back on the Stock Market, But Not Much Change Expected For Canvas Users

Edsurge

The specific concern came over a statement by the company’s then-CEO, Dan Goldsmith, who boasted at an investor conference that the company was developing algorithms based on user data that would give it a competitive advantage in the market. And Instructure’s latest prospectus doesn’t mention big plans to use data or algorithms, notes Hill.

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CoSN 2019: New Analytics Dashboard Measures Education Technology ROI

EdTech Magazine

The dashboard, Analytics Powered by Relay , allows schools to monitor how often devices are used, ensure student data privacy, make digital resources equitable, measure changes in student outcomes and measure how much time is being spent using school resources.

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10 key CoSN back-to-school resources for edtech leaders

eSchool News

4) 2023 Driving K-12 Innovation CoSN’s Driving K-12 Innovation 2023 series continues to provide trend reports that support the integration of emerging technologies in education. Subscribe today and explore insights, trends, and innovations in edtech. Preview the CoSN TLE Seal Application.

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10 key CoSN back-to-school resources for edtech leaders

eSchool News

4) 2023 Driving K-12 Innovation CoSN’s Driving K-12 Innovation 2023 series continues to provide trend reports that support the integration of emerging technologies in education. Subscribe today and explore insights, trends, and innovations in edtech. Preview the CoSN TLE Seal Application.

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6 Insights from Ed Tech Leaders Across the U.S.

The Innovative Educator

There they spoke openly and passionately about current trends, critical problems, and possible solutions. It is likely that our students will fix some of the mess we are experiencing now with responsible use. Student data privacy: We keep coming back to the conversation of student data privacy.

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Campus Edtech Has Shifted Focus From Tech to Ed

Edsurge

But it did save instructors huge amounts of time on an administrative task, and that left space for more meaningful work with their students. A decade later, that trend toward a focus on the end users has grown and evolved in two important ways. Absolutely not. How will we know that the analysis is reliable and useful?

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