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Districts plugged into the legislative process can protect and advocate for schools by informing legislators and state agencies about compliance challenges and issues, particularly when state directives conflict with studentdataprivacy laws.
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Despite universal concerns about studentdataprivacy, communicating school policies can quickly overwhelm school leaders. CoSN has stepped in with guidance for superintendents and principals to help them with several aspects of studentdataprivacy, including best practices for informing the community.
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Tools like Turnitin that check for plagiarism, intelligent tutoring softwares like Khan Academy or iReady that automate or personalize instruction, and chatbots like Alexa that answer student questions are all vulnerable to algorithmic biases in development and inequitable outcomes in implementation.
Tactical studentdataprivacy questions like “What can I do right now?” should be asked by all CIOs, teachers, administrators, and policymakers in this changing landscape of data access, studentprivacy, and interoperability. The data balancing act.
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Studentdataprivacy has been at the forefront of district leaders’ minds well before the pandemic. However, since COVID-19 shifted schools and classrooms online, it’s not surprising that tech usage has reached an all-time high.
The company is working with 1EdTech to release a standard for data exchanges that’s open to for others to use in early June. King argues that data exchanges make it easier for teachers to try out new tech products in the classroom because they reduce the need for a school’s IT department to help serve as gatekeeper.
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While participating in one of CoSN’s working groups, I began identifying which student-data-privacy principles were really important to us as school districts and what it meant to be a district as an exemplar in that area. Safeguarding data on digital terrain.
According to a studentdataprivacy law passed there a few years ago, anyone who collects or shares students’ personally identifiable information (or PII, as the shorthand goes) can be punished by up to six months in prison or $10,000 in fines. After all, they ask themselves, what’s the worst that could happen?
At Inkster Preparatory Academy outside Detroit, students track their scores on the high-stakes NWEA Map test on the walls of their classrooms. The practice is known as “data walls,” and is designed to serve as a motivational tool. That allows her to see data trends from one class to another. Are They Effective?
During a recent edWebinar , sponsored by ClassLink and co-hosted by CoSN and AASA , the presenters discussed the policies and practices that also keep data safe in a digital education environment. Based on CoSN’s “ StudentDataPrivacy: A School System Priority. Stay current and compliant with federal and state laws.
For guidance on these and other matters, her district works with the California StudentPrivacy Alliance and their studentdataprivacy agreement, a template document districts can use as a contract with providers. tools teachers want to use in their classrooms. If it’s free, hey use it.”
Another thing you can do is to discuss studentdataprivacy and digital security with PTA members, teachers, and school board administrators. What are the risks. Remember, never share or write down any required passwords to parental controls.
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