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How to Manage Student Devices for Remote Learning

Digital Promise

As schools across the country have rapidly shifted to distance learning due to school closures brought about by the coronavirus (COVID-19), students have been sent home with school-issued devices like laptops or tablets so they can continue their learning from home. Review operating systems. Finally, keep it simple.

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Protecting Student Data Privacy as a Guiding EdTech Principle

Lightspeed Systems

Student welfare, of course, is comprised of many elements, including teaching and learning, student mental health, student safety, and, importantly, student data privacy. Lightspeed Systems fully complies with COPPA and students are not allowed to sign up for any of our solutions.

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Creating Future Ready Schools and Classrooms

Tom Murray

How can schools and districts systemically create a vision of teaching and learning that’s personal, authentic, relevant, and harnesses the power of technology? Non-traditional forms of professional learning such as the use of social media and Edcamps are valued, not dismissed. Robust Infrastructure.

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How Should We Approach the Ethical Considerations of AI in K-12 Education?

Edsurge

AI shows up in instructional chatbots, personalized learning systems and administrative tools. Moreover, since effective AI solutions require large amounts of information, maintaining student data privacy is an ongoing challenge. There is likely to be no field or industry untouched by AI before long.

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From High School to Harvard, Students Urge for Clarity on Privacy Rights

Edsurge

What rights do parents, students and teachers have in an educational system increasingly awash in data and technology? The degree of privacy a student gets should not be dependent on that student’s socioeconomic status. Yes, that is very important.

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Students Are Online Like Never Before. What Does That Mean for Their Privacy?

Edsurge

But now, with entire school systems using technology as a means to access learning, those questions are growing in volume and urgency. And oftentimes, they’re coming from parties that have not typically had a voice in this conversation: parents, teachers and students themselves. Who has access to it? And how long is it kept?

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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 16 Edition)

Doug Levin

The pace of additions should be concerning to anyone who cares about personalized learning and/or student data privacy. By 2021, most of the student body should be in the system." When this system gets breached, your identity may be forever compromised. million K-12 students. The breach affects 1.3

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