Neo LMS

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

It’s helpful to leverage technology for these because most online tools will automatically grade and give data reports. Once teachers have data about student ability and/or interests, this can inform the content you select and the small groups that you may create within your class. Pre-tests are quick ways to assess ability levels.

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EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 21, 2020

As systems continue to evolve, it is crucial that data security strategy advances at the same speed. This means ensuring watertight protection of educational data against one of the most common forms of attack: ransomware. If schools took proactive precautions, such face-offs might never be necessary.

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Securly

OCTOBER 24, 2024

For K-12 edtech leaders, the start of the 2024-25 school year brought some familiar pressures, like systems to deploy and staff to train. But they’re also navigating new priorities and edtech challenges, including AI integration, student mental health, and digital equity, all while ESSER funding begins to sunset.

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EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Many early adopters limited their use of cloud services to long-term storage for backup data. The widespread migration of data and workloads to cloud environments has… But over time, IT professionals have become more comfortable with relying on cloud service providers.

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Neo LMS

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

5 Ways edtech helps students demonstrate learning. Data visualization. Each of these tools offers a variety of question types or modes of play that will connect students with the content and provide us with real-time data to help plan our next steps and give meaningful feedback to our students. Interactive lessons.

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EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 14, 2023

While many educational software providers offer students helpful and engaging content, some can end up exposing student data. A December 2022 report from Internet Safety Labs confirmed that 96 percent of school apps shared student data with third parties, and 28 percent exposed kids to advertising.

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EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

IT departments are taking a closer look at the way educational technology is collecting and using student data. However, not everyone in education is aware of the risks associated with data collection, and it can be hard to convey why it’s important to use tech with restrictions or caution.

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EdTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

In the digital education landscape, modern technology collects a large amount of data. While it’s important to protect student data, it’s also important to note that there is more digital data available to educators than ever before.

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EdTech Magazine

AUGUST 15, 2022

Every school district has data storage needs, and student records are just the beginning. No matter the storage option, having storage is the easy part of the data management problem. The challenge is making use of the data once you have it. The challenge is making use of the data once you have it.

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EdTech Magazine

JULY 26, 2024

For hackers, K–12 student data is some of the most valuable information in the world, which means that data privacy plays a central role in any cybersecurity strategy. Schools are “sitting on a lot of very clean data, and that’s what people are after,” explained Rob Chambers, vice president of platform strategies at Lightspeed Systems.

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EdTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

However, despite the widespread use of cloud tools in K–12 education, only 23 percent of respondents are “very concerned” about data breaches or leaks, the…

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Digital Promise

JUNE 24, 2021

Education Stabilization funding can be used to purchase edtech that supports leaders’ vision for their learners and educators. With thousands of edtech products available, and many already in use in learning contexts, how can leaders determine which tools can support the transformation they hope to achieve for learners?

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EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 21, 2020

But there’s another need that K–12 administrators should also prioritize, experts say: data privacy. Most of these technology systems are in the cloud , and there is data being transferred back and forth, so that piece of the puzzle has to be fortified and secured.”.

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EdTech Magazine

MAY 6, 2021

It achieved these increases by taking a closer look at its student data, with the help of Randall Sampson. The Ohio high school additionally saw a 35 percent increase in students’ scores on AP exams rising from 3 to 4. Sampson was an administrator at Westerville City School District at the time. Now, he works as the chief curation…

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EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Many K–12 organizations and districts lose essential data due to ineffective planning. They suffer when unexpected malware, ransomware, weather events and other mishaps occur that require a cogent data restoration procedure.

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EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Education is among the most heavily targeted sectors due to its vast stores of valuable data and its comparatively weak security measures. Adversaries are aware of the personal data that schools, district offices, libraries and other targets hold, as well as the security shortcomings that create a low barrier to entry.

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 26, 2023

Use student data to personalize learning: The concept isn’t new. The number of times children raise their hands in class is data; the percentage of students who missed the same question on a test is data. Where technology now plays a role is in scaling the use of data.

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EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Modernizing K–12 data infrastructure to enhance efficiency, agility and robustness becomes mission critical with limited IT resources. The use of cloud-based technology in schools has grown more complex and widespread, giving way to various methods to protect private student data in the cloud.

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EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Data is becoming the lifeblood of many schools. District and IT leaders are using data from these platforms to gain insights into their staff, students and operations. But what if the data that fuels these insights suddenly becomes unavailable? They can’t afford to have their data down for…

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EdTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Data analytics tools may be the answer to questions that IT leaders are only beginning to ask in K–12 education. There’s a further benefit to these analytics tools: helping K–12 educators evaluate the impact of their chosen digital solutions and manage their virtual and in-person classrooms.

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EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

They’re targeting a rich cache of data and IT resources. Cyberattacks on our nation’s K–12 schools are on the rise. Since 2016, there have been 1,180 cyber-related incidents in K–12 public schools, and this number continues to grow. With the shift to online and hybrid learning, schools have found themselves more exposed than ever.

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EdTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

While at the 2025 TCEA Convention & Exposition in Austin, Texas, EdTech: Focus On K12 Managing Editor Taashi Rowe spoke with Brian Brown, the organizations board president. Brown also serves as CTO for Duncanville Independent School District.

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EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The education sector is no exception to the ever-present threat of cyberattacks and data breaches. 1 thing the bad actors are going after is data,” says Fadi Fadhil, field CTO for Palo Alto Networks and… K–12 schools in particular are increasingly targeted by malicious actors seeking financial gain and disruption.

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Digital Promise

MAY 9, 2023

This three-part blog series, featuring guest authors from The Learning Accelerator and MA DESE OET , highlights the importance of centering equity in edtech selection. In this second post, the author outlines three questions school and systems leaders should answer before procurement when considering new edtech.

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EdTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Many K–12 districts are not using data analytics tools, which is not to say they shouldn’t be. Good data analytics solutions don’t simply churn out data for IT leaders to analyze and interpret, they give IT administrators visibility into their systems.

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EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 18, 2021

The national K-12 Cybersecurity Resource Center reported 408 publicly disclosed cyber incidents in 2020, including student and staff data breaches, malware outbreaks, denial of service attacks, phishing attacks and other social engineering scams. That’s an 18 percent increase from 2019, according…

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EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 16, 2024

CoSN is partnering with school districts in Illinois via the states Learning Technology Center to strengthen K12 data privacy practices. Currently, only one district in the state has earned the TLE Seal, which CoSN awards to schools that document their data privacy strengths in all five areas of the framework.

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 28, 2022

To effectively address student data privacy, K–12 IT leaders need to understand the legal requirements. The main federal statute guiding student data privacy is FERPA, which stands for the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act.

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EdTech Magazine

JULY 11, 2022

Both IT leaders take a proactive approach to online security, emphasizing the importance of protecting student data and school networks. Vrain Valley Schools, and Tim Tillman, CTO at Chesterfield County Public Schools in Virginia, share their strategies for improving cybersecurity in their districts.

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 20, 2022

He understood that instructors were racing to bridge the gap between school and home to keep student learning on track, but in the back of his mind, a question lingered: What impact would these new resources have on student data privacy? “We Teachers might be able to use an application at no cost…

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EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 20, 2024

EDR uses endpoint monitoring and data analytics to identify suspicious behavior. Meanwhile, the shift to digital learning has expanded the attack surface, and most end users are kids, who may not be well versed in cybersecurity best practices. It can detect potential threats, block malicious activity, suggest remediations and alert security

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EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Faced with sobering data like this, school technology leaders such as Neeraj (Raj) Kapur are placing identity management on the front lines of their cyber strategies. Identity and access management is one…

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EdTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

A lot of attention goes into protecting data. K–12 IT teams ponder cybersecurity, disk arrays, cloud availability zones and bandwidth to keep their schools’ data flowing. And are they sure they can actually restore a school’s data when the need arises? But do they give backup systems the attention they deserve?

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EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Project Unicorn is a coalition of 16 national organizations working together to promote data interoperability in the K–12 space. Bearden, who is also the former chief innovation officer for the Consortium for School Networking, spoke to EdTech about why interoperability is necessary.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 16, 2025

Linewize , the North American division of global safety and student wellbeing leader Qoria , announced the launch of EdTech Insights, a new platform designed to transform data into actionable intelligence for K-12 schools and districts at Booth #1083. ” Conference attendees can visit Linewize at Booth #1083.

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EdTech Magazine

JULY 13, 2023

Schools store, handle and transmit some of the most sensitive data that exists about people, including grades, health status, addresses, Social Security numbers and even financial information.

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