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FBI Issues Warning for K–12 Schools on Student Data Privacy

EdTech Magazine

FBI Issues Warning for K–12 Schools on Student Data Privacy. Schools utilizing education technology may need to double down on cybersecurity as collections of student data become more common targets for cybercriminals, announces the Federal Bureau of Investigations in an alert , Tuesday. eli.zimmerman_9856.

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Student Data Privacy: What’s Your Obligation?

Tom Murray

The congressional hearing focused on the appropriate use of data by school employees, levels of access and security, as well as third party vendors that districts partner with to provide tools and resources for student learning. – Student Data Principles. – CoSN’s Protecting Privacy Toolkit.

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January 14: – 8pm EST: Student Data & Privacy in the Cloud

EdTechTeacher

ATLIS, EdTech Teacher, and ICG combined conversation on student data, privacy, and cloud-based service providers. You can also folowing Lorri Carroll, moderator, agreed to make student privacy the topic of this week’s ISED Twitter chat (#isedchat). Join and register here.

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6 things schools can do to ensure student data privacy

eSchool News

Student data privacy is quite a different topic from the headlines most people read concerning data breaches. Student data privacy concerns, specifically, center on the misuse of personally identifiable information, known by its acronym PII. Manage data with precision.

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CoSN 2019: New Analytics Dashboard Measures Education Technology ROI

EdTech Magazine

JOIN THE CONVERSATION: Follow @EdTech_K12 on Twitter for continued COSN 2019 coverage! In order to measure how effective a technology is, it is important to have enough data to see how well students are using certain tools and what they are using them for. . “We “How do you really justify technology?” by Eli Zimmerman.

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CoSN2020: Annual Event Focuses on Breakthrough Mindsets

EdTech Magazine

New resources on student data privacy. This summit will focus on shaping decision-makers’ opinions about the future of E-rate, student data privacy, ed tech appropriations and the homework gap. Please join the discussion on Twitter by using the #ConnectIT hashtag. March 16 to 18.

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CoSN2020: Annual Event Focuses on Breakthrough Mindsets

EdTech Magazine

New resources on student data privacy. This summit will focus on shaping decision-makers’ opinions about the future of E-rate, student data privacy, ed tech appropriations and the homework gap. Please join the discussion on Twitter by using the #ConnectIT hashtag. March 16 to 18.