eSchool News

MAY 16, 2024

The inaugural report aims to uncover timely factors contributing to the current teen mental health crisis as described by the app’s users—middle and high school students. The study utilizes anonymized data from over 30,000 confidential sessions teens held on the AI-powered app during the 2023-24 school year.

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Edsurge

JUNE 13, 2017

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. The degree of privacy a student gets should not be dependent on that student’s socioeconomic status.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

The pandemic is changing the way tests and quizzes are conducted at colleges across the country, with the rapid adoption of new tools that proponents say catch cheating, but in ways that many students say amount to an unacceptable invasion of their privacy. More than 60,000 students across the U.S. Students on other campuses agree.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 24, 2024

5 Internet Safety Tips for Teachers The internet has provided teachers with numerous tools to enhance their students’ learning experience. This could expose confidential student data, compromise work communications, and even jeopardize the safety of those around you. However, it’s not without a few downsides.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 26, 2016

Gabe Soumakian: With E-rate modernization, the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), and more taking place at once, what are you looking at in terms of changes to the way you’re funding technology these days? I don’t know if we’re going to get there, but it would definitely help us get things to students faster.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 14, 2020

One of six core modules that make up Simbli’s board management software, the Policy module helps school boards develop, communicate, and collaborate on policies and procedures in real time. Automatically attach PDF versions of policies to board meeting agendas, strategic plans, or board evaluations. Access archived versions of policies.

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eSchool News

MARCH 14, 2016

Anonymous Alerts helps students in the Croton-Harmon School District report their concerns quickly using anti-bullying and safety-reporting app. Using the mobile app technology, students can now quickly and anonymously report urgent or sensitive information to authorized school officials.

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Edtech IRL

MAY 21, 2025

For those of us keeping up with the PowerSchool data breach, a 19-year-old student at Assumption University in Worcester, Massachusetts, has agreed to plead guilty to several federal charges after hacking into the systems of two U.S. They threatened to release stolen confidential data unless paid.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

Want to throw away old student records? If you don’t, your institution might get accused of violating the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, or FERPA, which protects student education records in both K-12 and higher education. It only protects what’s in a student’s education record.

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eSchool News

MAY 13, 2020

We’re in the middle of a significant worldwide shift impacting communication from the workplace to schools to the home. Combined with its integration with widely used G Suite tools like Gmail and Calendar, users see Meet as a compelling video communications solution.” With this growth comes great responsibility.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 7, 2024

The significance of communication between educators and leaders is crafting policies that foster safe and conducive spaces for learning in the digital age. Faculty members should demonstrate an understanding of digital indicators that may signal distress in online students. They should guide students to these resources effectively.

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Edsurge

MARCH 16, 2020

Over the past weeks, readers have asked us many questions about the impact of the coronavirus on education in many different areas, from admissions to advice for young children, from salaries to student privacy and whether school closures actually work. As we receive and answer others, we will update this post.

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Scholarly Teacher

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Cavazos , The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley Ryan McBride , The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley Key Statement: Student-faculty partnerships can foster asset-based approaches in teaching and learning that challenge implicit linguistic bias and enhance students’ linguistically diverse resources. 2024; Cook-Sather, 2020).

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 25, 2023

Those who came affectionately to mind were ones I knew cared about me as a human being as well as a student. One prioritizes content over students, while the other prioritizes students. Their aim in teaching was to instill knowledge as if the students were empty vessels into which the professor simply poured content.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 7, 2024

The significance of communication between educators and leaders is crafting policies that foster safe and conducive spaces for learning in the digital age. Faculty members should demonstrate an understanding of digital indicators that may signal distress in online students. They should guide students to these resources effectively.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 25, 2023

Those who came affectionately to mind were ones I knew cared about me as a human being as well as a student. One prioritizes content over students, while the other prioritizes students. Their aim in teaching was to instill knowledge as if the students were empty vessels into which the professor simply poured content.

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Cult of Pedagogy

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

Regardless of where your understanding of gender fluidity lies, what you probably have in common with your fellow educators is that you want all of your students to feel safe, accepted, and loved while they are under your care. “When a student changes their name and pronouns,” he offers, “who should be informed?

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Faculty Focus

MAY 13, 2025

It means cultivating an inclusive and participatory environment where students feel seen, valued, and empowered to learn. Effective pedagogy not only presents material that fosters intellectual and personal growth, but it also equips students with the skills to navigate their academic and professional paths with confidence.

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Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 12, 2024

We often hear from our colleagues that our students are not resilient, they are difficult, they seem to always have excuses, and often need us to make rather unreasonable adjustments. Many of our undergraduate students were born during the time of a recession when anxiety may have been woven into the fabric of their upbringing.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 13, 2025

It means cultivating an inclusive and participatory environment where students feel seen, valued, and empowered to learn. Effective pedagogy not only presents material that fosters intellectual and personal growth, but it also equips students with the skills to navigate their academic and professional paths with confidence.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 10, 2023

As students, faculty, and staff figure out the “newish-normalish” of college learning during the age of COVID-19, prioritizing a “pedagogy of care” (informed by Noddings, 1984, 2013) is essential to re-connecting peer-to-peer and professor-to-student relationships so that mutual care and respect can be re-established in college classrooms.

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 29, 2020

As school districts nationwide continue instruction in a remote learning environment, many educators are using videoconferencing technology to stay connected with students and collaborate with colleagues from a distance. MORE ON EDTECH: Discover how districts are protecting student data during e-learning.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 10, 2023

As students, faculty, and staff figure out the “newish-normalish” of college learning during the age of COVID-19, prioritizing a “pedagogy of care” (informed by Noddings, 1984, 2013) is essential to re-connecting peer-to-peer and professor-to-student relationships so that mutual care and respect can be re-established in college classrooms.

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Activities Ethics Confidentiality Learning Spaces 98

Scholarly Teacher

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Relevance According to a global survey in five countries, nearly 74% of university students indicated that they planned to use ChatGPT for academic tasks (Ibrahim et al., Generative AI tools can identify grammatical issues and provide tailored suggestions to edit students' writing. 2023; Sallam, 2023). 2021; Yang et al.,

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 15, 2018

Like moths to a flame, curious and tech-savvy students have always pushed the limits of what educators deem ‘acceptable use’ of school technology. When students break school rules related to the acceptable use of school technology, they are subject to being disciplined. This is in no way a new phenomenon.

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EdTech Magazine

MAY 12, 2020

As school districts nationwide continue instruction in a remote learning environment, many educators are using videoconferencing technology to stay connected with students and collaborate with colleagues from a distance. MORE ON EDTECH: Discover how districts are protecting student data during e-learning.

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EdTech Magazine

MAY 7, 2020

As school districts nationwide continue instruction in a remote learning environment, many educators are using videoconferencing technology to stay connected with students and collaborate with colleagues from a distance. MORE ON EDTECH: Discover how districts are protecting student data during e-learning.

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Confidentiality Learning Distance Learning Participation 60

EdTech Magazine

MAY 6, 2020

As school districts nationwide continue instruction in a remote learning environment, many educators are using videoconferencing technology to stay connected with students and collaborate with colleagues from a distance. MORE ON EDTECH: Discover how districts are protecting student data during e-learning.

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EdTech Magazine

MAY 6, 2020

As school districts nationwide continue instruction in a remote learning environment, many educators are using videoconferencing technology to stay connected with students and collaborate with colleagues from a distance. MORE ON EDTECH: Discover how districts are protecting student data during e-learning.

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Confidentiality Learning Distance Learning Participation 60

EdTech Magazine

APRIL 30, 2020

As school districts nationwide continue instruction in a remote learning environment, many educators are using videoconferencing technology to stay connected with students and collaborate with colleagues from a distance. MORE ON EDTECH: Discover how districts are protecting student data during e-learning.

Confidentiality 60

Confidentiality Learning Distance Learning Participation 60

EdTech Magazine

APRIL 30, 2020

As school districts nationwide continue instruction in a remote learning environment, many educators are using videoconferencing technology to stay connected with students and collaborate with colleagues from a distance. MORE ON EDTECH: Discover how districts are protecting student data during e-learning.

Confidentiality 60

Confidentiality Learning Distance Learning Participation 60

EdTech Magazine

APRIL 30, 2020

As school districts nationwide continue instruction in a remote learning environment, many educators are using videoconferencing technology to stay connected with students and collaborate with colleagues from a distance. MORE ON EDTECH: Discover how districts are protecting student data during e-learning.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 27, 2023

According to the Center for First-Generation Student Success 2018 survey results, the three most important student success factors driving institutional offerings for first-generation students were retention, completion and degree attainment, and academic performance (Figure 1). 2009) and retention (Gordon et al.,

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 27, 2023

According to the Center for First-Generation Student Success 2018 survey results, the three most important student success factors driving institutional offerings for first-generation students were retention, completion and degree attainment, and academic performance (Figure 1). 2009) and retention (Gordon et al.,

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Edtech IRL

JANUARY 9, 2025

22, the attackers used automated scripts to exfiltrate data from the tenants’ Students and Teachers database table from PowerSource using a data export tool used for remote support. While none of the customer communications or FAQ documents have mentioned MFA, during the Jan. As of Jan. What fields were accessed? During the Jan.

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k12 Digest

MAY 21, 2025

If we want students to thrive in inclusive environments, educators must be equipped to recognize and address inequities head-on. Through intentional design, school leaders can move their respective staffs from awareness to action, cultivating the critical consciousness needed to support all students.

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Confidentiality Culture Discussions Beliefs 224

k12 Digest

MAY 21, 2025

If we want students to thrive in inclusive environments, educators must be equipped to recognize and address inequities head-on. Through intentional design, school leaders can move their respective staffs from awareness to action, cultivating the critical consciousness needed to support all students.

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Confidentiality Culture Discussions Beliefs 130