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StudentDataPrivacy. Edtech administrators and Edtech information technology administrators have many sleepless nights contemplating studentdataprivacy and cybersecurity challenges in their districts. Not surprising is the continued focus on STEAM, STEM, coding, and robotics. STEAM and STEM.
By now, you’ve likely seen countless variations of “The Robots are Coming” headlines from clever copywriters hunting for clicks. There are legitimate concerns about early-stage AI, including: Security and privacy Of all the issues, this one feels like the easiest to address.
Edtech programs that mirror video games were also brought in, building student confidence as learners won badges and advanced through the levels of the adaptive programs. They trained volunteers to access Lexia’s reports and use the data to adjust direct instruction.
Project based hybrids, such as software to run a robot, science instruments, and calculators . Yet a good selection process should be applied to new digital curriculum materials if only to ensure the materials are not rogue and outside basic curriculum maps, as well as ensure that they have security and protect studentdataprivacy.
Do you know that feeling when you are told your questions about studentprivacy are unfounded by a representative of a company that earns 86% of its total revenue from advertising? “I’m slightly wary of building a Google data profile of a young child,” says @ashleyrcarman @verge [link]. That's a lot of computers.
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She implements programs like Istation to give her teachers an advantage in providing data driven instruction and strong, effective interventions. Alexander inspires an innovative approach to learning by embedding interventions led by Istation’s assessment data into the school’s daily instruction.
It was like some I, Robot, theyre going to take over the world kind of stuff. Staten teaches English at Northeast High School, the citys largest high school, where many of her students have learning disabilities, are dealing with trauma and mental health challenges, or are learning English. We were not as smart with social media.
Via EdScoop : “ Google adds new terms to comply with Connecticut studentdataprivacy laws.” Via Techcrunch : “ Facebook launches Youth Portal to educate teens on the platform, how their data is being used.” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. Not so fast, suggest investors.
.” That’s the CFPB , whose new leader is also addressed in this story from NPR : “What The Upheaval At A Federal Consumer Watchdog Could Mean For Students.” House Hearing on Algorithms & Big Data : 5 Takeaways for Schools.” ” More MOOC data in the “research” section below.
.” I tweeted that the DACA database is one of the most important issues in ed-tech right now, and if you’re an ed-tech entrepreneur who says “nobody in ed-tech tracks immigration data,” you need to GTFO. Via Education Week : “ Mississippi Attorney General Sues Google Over Student-DataPrivacy.”
Indeed, Edutechnica, which also tracks LMS data, responds with their own numbers and says that Blackboard still has about two hundred more installations than Canvas and about a million more students using the software. ” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. Data, Surveillance, and Information Security.
That being said, if you’re using a piece of technology that’s free, it’s likely that your personal data is being sold to advertisers or at the very least hoarded as a potential asset (and used, for example, to develop some sort of feature or algorithm). It works well, that is, if you disregard studentdataprivacy and security.
Via Inside Higher Ed : “The number of career colleges and the number of credentials they award have dropped by roughly 20 percent in the last four years, new data from the U.S. Via Edsurge : “ Andrew Ng Is Probably Teaching More Students Than Anyone Else on the Planet. ” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction.
Via Chalkbeat : “Robotics is bringing Betsy DeVos to Detroit for the first time as education secretary.” ” (“…She’s unlikely to encounter local students when she’s there.”). Via EdWeek’s Market Brief : “ McGraw-Hill Education Picks New CEO From World of Data Analytics.”
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