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How to Navigate Your Biggest EdTech Challenges in the 2024-25 School Year

Securly

These include ensuring its ethical and responsible use , concerns about cheating, threats to student data privacy, and defending against new cyber risks and new forms of cyberbullying. Increasing Digital Equity & Parent Engagement Districts seem to be struggling with a growing digital divide.

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Lightspeed Systems’ New ‘Digital Equity’ Module Provides Actionable Insight Into Students’ Internet Connectivity And School-Issued Device Health When Learning Outside of School

eSchool News

“Lightspeed Systems’ Digital Equity will help us bridge the digital divide in the communities that our schools serve, ensuring we determine which students need additional resources, like hotspots and more,” said Eric Hileman, Executive Director of IT for Oklahoma City Public Schools, and a Lightspeed client and Digital Equity beta user.

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Generative AI and Academic Integrity

Lightspeed Systems

Teachers and other stakeholders should also have considerable input into ethical considerations like student data privacy, potential bias, and misinformation associated with AI tools. Ensure Student Data Privacy and Digital Equity Expand the dialogue regarding AI applications to beyond what happens in the classroom.

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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. Census data, and the divide among states in internet accessibility is apparent.

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Research Shows the Need for More Support to Protect Privacy and Advance Digital Equity

eSchool News

These include prioritizing privacy-focused teacher training and proactively communicating with parents about how schools are protecting their children’s data. At the same time, they reported hacked video conferences during school, and teachers exposing student grades while sharing their screens. “The

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16 Great NonProfits Working to Support EdTech in Schools

Tom Murray

To give further context, I’ve sorted them alphabetically, into four categories; (1) those organizations that are instructionally-focused; (2) those that provide supports for technology leadership; (3) those that focus on connectivity and access; and (4) those that focus on data privacy and security. Organization: Code.org ®.

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Interoperability is finally getting the spotlight it deserves

eSchool News

I often speak with district administrators or edtech vendors who have never heard of “interoperability” or don’t know about using K-12 data standards. Project Unicorn works with early adopters who are ready to start their interoperability journey, knowing they have the privacy and security practices to begin.

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