Lightspeed Systems

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Technology plays a vital role in education, giving students access to digital resources, enhancing instruction, and streamlining school operations. But as schools adopt more edtech tools, managing privacy, security, and compliance across all applications becomes increasingly complex. What is an App Audit?

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 8, 2021

What should teachers be expected to know about student data privacy and ethics? Considering so much of their jobs now revolve around student data, it’s a simple enough question—and one that researcher Ellen B. Mandinach and a colleague were tasked with answering.

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Edsurge

JULY 22, 2021

The specific concern came over a statement by the company’s then-CEO, Dan Goldsmith, who boasted at an investor conference that the company was developing algorithms based on user data that would give it a competitive advantage in the market. And Instructure’s latest prospectus doesn’t mention big plans to use data or algorithms, notes Hill.

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EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Educational technology is on a fast path of continuous change, but leaders’ mindsets don’t always follow. One key shift is that educational technology leaders need to adopt a more strategic focus instead of a break/fix approach. New resources on student data privacy. Children experience this too. March 16 to 18.

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EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Educational technology is on a fast path of continuous change, but leaders’ mindsets don’t always follow. One key shift is that educational technology leaders need to adopt a more strategic focus instead of a break/fix approach. New resources on student data privacy. Children experience this too. March 16 to 18.

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EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Educational technology is on a fast path of continuous change, but leaders’ mindsets don’t always follow. One key shift is that educational technology leaders need to adopt a more strategic focus instead of a break/fix approach. New resources on student data privacy. Children experience this too. March 16 to 18.

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EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Educational technology is on a fast path of continuous change, but leaders’ mindsets don’t always follow. One key shift is that educational technology leaders need to adopt a more strategic focus instead of a break/fix approach. New resources on student data privacy. Children experience this too. March 16 to 18.

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EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Educational technology is on a fast path of continuous change, but leaders’ mindsets don’t always follow. One key shift is that educational technology leaders need to adopt a more strategic focus instead of a break/fix approach. New resources on student data privacy. Children experience this too. March 16 to 18.

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 9, 2020

Educational technology is on a fast path of continuous change, but leaders’ mindsets don’t always follow. One key shift is that educational technology leaders need to adopt a more strategic focus instead of a break/fix approach. New resources on student data privacy. Children experience this too. March 16 to 18.

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Educational technology is on a fast path of continuous change, but leaders’ mindsets don’t always follow. One key shift is that educational technology leaders need to adopt a more strategic focus instead of a break/fix approach. New resources on student data privacy. Children experience this too. March 16 to 18.

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EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Educational technology is on a fast path of continuous change, but leaders’ mindsets don’t always follow. One key shift is that educational technology leaders need to adopt a more strategic focus instead of a break/fix approach. New resources on student data privacy. Children experience this too. March 16 to 18.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Technology is enabling learning like never before, with millions of students attending school remotely for some or all of their regular instruction this fall. With this skyrocketing growth in technology use, however, comes greater concerns around student privacy. How is that data being used?

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Was their children’s private data going to be safe even outside the district’s hands? Baltimore County has become a leader in student data privacy and security, and is one of only 13 districts in the nation to earn a Trusted Learning Environment seal from CoSN, the membership group representing the nation’s K-12 school technology leaders.

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Edsurge

APRIL 7, 2023

Ensuring that a wide range of strategies for personalized, student-centered learning and pathways can be achieved by enabling a choice of digital learning products that can be configured for the needs of each student.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 28, 2024

This can seamlessly blend into activities like station rotation, math workshops, exit tickets, technology time or even whole-group instruction. We want them to have fun while they're learning, and that's what makes effective game-based learning truly special. There are many natural ways to incorporate games into the classroom.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 19, 2016

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. Vet your vendors.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 18, 2023

Phil Hintz has been approved by the D219 Board of Education as the next Chief Technology Officer for the 2023-2024 school year. Phil has led the charge for his district to develop and implement Student Data Privacy systems in the State of Illinois and recently presented at ISTELive22 on these protocols and processes.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

In recent years, K-12 tech innovation news has made it clear that educational technology has become an integral part of classrooms, influencing teaching methodologies, student interactions, and the overall educational landscape. What is one positive effect technology has had on education?

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 29, 2017

CoSN is the only national professional association dedicated exclusively to education technology leaders, providing them with management, community building and tools to transform their schools and districts. Its core beliefs are: Technology is a critical tool to personalize learning.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

And, unless yours is a very fortunate system, technology staff hasn’t increased at a rate commensurate with the reliance on, and the complexity of, technology that supports school operation and education of students. I know is a great resource, but I don’t think teachers are even aware of it.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

AI: Can it think like your students do? These findings suggest the need for a strong call-to-action to increase technology use and services, as well as training and official guidance for safe AI implementation in schools, with education solution providers at the forefront of this push alongside schools.

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Lightspeed Systems

AUGUST 14, 2023

The Challenge When Virginia Beach City Public Schools (VBCPS) began deploying its 1:1 initiative several years ago, the district’s instructional and technology teams worked closely together to ensure teachers had the support and professional development required to ensure the initiative was a success.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 24, 2018

And with that, we went in search of an LMS that could support our data-privacy commitment, which has been a key focus for at least six years and a keystone of how we make technology-related decisions.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 17, 2020

“But until actual actions are taken, we won’t stop fighting for what we need to protect our students. Company officials said they are now in the process of forming an advisory committee on student data privacy, to be made up of customers and privacy experts. “We We’re absolutely investigating this.”

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eSchool News

JULY 2, 2024

LearnPlatform by Instructure published its seventh EdTech Top 40 – the latest report on the usage of digital solutions, tools and resources in K-12 districts, schools and classrooms within the United States during the 2023-24 school year. In addition to highlighting the top 40 education technology products, which represent more than 3.9

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eSchool News

JULY 28, 2023

There are legitimate concerns about early-stage AI, including: Security and privacy Of all the issues, this one feels like the easiest to address. Ask questions to confirm that any AI-integrated apps are keeping prompts and identifying data separate.

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EdNews Daily

JUNE 22, 2019

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 student data privacy.

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Edsurge

APRIL 1, 2020

The company’s interest in developing a data analytics service—once codenamed DIG and now known as Insights, per Benson—hasn’t gone away. Possible uses of the service include measuring impact of new teaching technologies, engaging students at risk of dropping out and predicting how students perform in courses.

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techlearning

OCTOBER 25, 2018

She has been covering inspirational educators and technology in the K–12 arena for Tech & Learning for the past eight years. Monthly webinars will tackle topics such as Student Data Privacy: A Priority and Essential Commitment (October 8th) and Cyber Security: A Critical School District Priority (November 12th).

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Tom Murray

AUGUST 21, 2016

Prior to my role as the Director of Innovation for Future Ready Schools ® , I spent 14 years in a public school in Pennsylvania as an elementary and middle school teacher, middle school and elementary principal, and district level technology director. Organization: International Association of K-12 Online Learning (iNACOL).

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Edsurge

MARCH 10, 2020

Sarah, what is it about facial recognition technology that is raising some concerns? A lot of people are not aware that this technology is being used on them. Another issue with facial recognition technology is that it is based off of an algorithm, and it’s based off of an idea of what like the model human would be.

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Lightspeed Systems

OCTOBER 20, 2023

As such, academic dishonesty—student “cheating,” for example—has always proven a pain in the arse for educators. With enabling technologies at the fingertips of students at every grade of the K-12 spectrum, there’s a tendency for some to consider cheating a byproduct of today’s Information Age.

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edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Evans said the Speak Up survey revealed that during the school closure period, there was a significant increase in students and teachers having two-way communication. For example, survey data showed: Student and teacher texting increased significantly during the sudden shift to digital learning because of COVID-19 school closures.

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Edsurge

MARCH 10, 2020

based provider of learning management software for K-12, higher ed, government and businesses, has agreed to sell its Open LMS business to Learning Technologies Group, or LTG, a London-based conglomerate of workplace learning software services. LTG will maintain the existing Blackboard student data privacy policy.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 14, 2020

To provide enhanced visibility into student digital engagement and learning patterns, CatchOn , an expansive data analytics and application monitoring tool for K-12 schools, has launched an industry-leading student-level data module.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

How do you know if your school system is high performing in its use of technology? A first step is for districts to learn about CoSN’s new Digital Leap Success Matrix (Matrix) which outlines the practices needed to be a successful digital school system. What are your strengths and weaknesses?

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eSchool News

APRIL 7, 2016

Annual survey outlines broadband, instructional materials, student data privacy as top among school IT leaders’ concerns. Broadband and network capacity is school technology leaders’ top priority, according to the results of an annual IT leadership survey from CoSN.

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