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There Is a Heightened Awareness Around Student Data Privacy. Here’s What Schools Are Doing About It

Digital Promise

Recent articles emerged as a result of remote learning, including: Remote Learning Software Tracked Kids’ Data to Sell to Advertisers and Brokers. Private equity firm is amassing companies that collect data on America’s children. FTC (Federal Trade Commission) to ‘Crack Down’ on Ed Tech, Student Data Privacy.

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Chief Privacy Officers: The Unicorns of K-12 Education

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Denver Public Schools in Colorado and Baltimore County Public Schools in Maryland have each hired a senior-level official who is responsible for the organization’s privacy policies and data governance. It’s definitely a best practice to have somebody work to ensure privacy at that level.”

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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. So who is responsible?

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What It’s Like Navigating the Strictest Student Privacy Law in the Country

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According to a student data privacy 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?

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What Some School Tech Leaders Think of Your Edtech Pitch

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Then there are teachers who go out and find resources to use but have no idea about the ramifications of connecting students to those services. Whether or not they are compliant with COPPA, FERPA or CIPA or any of the student data privacy laws is not always clear. Every year there’s a new product.

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Brainwave Headsets Are Making Their Way Into Classrooms—For Meditation and Discipline

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Understanding that referrals can be subject to a teacher’s own bias or behavior, she says “that is definitely a limitation of the study.” And when asked about agreements with Interaxon, which also has high-level view of aggregate data from headset users, the co-founder says “I don’t know the answer to whether or not or how much we provide.”

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Empowering Educators with AI: Today’s Tools and Tomorrow’s Innovations

Shake Up Learning

Image Source The checklist uses four criteria for assessing AI tools: Relevancy, Student Data Privacy, Ease of Learning, and Support. One part of that resource is the “Assessing AI for Classroom Use Checklist” document. Google is currently beta testing AI integration with Google Classroom for teachers.

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