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How digital books connect vulnerable students with reading

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Confidential access to digital books for readers of all abilities. Using digital books has given students access to a wider variety of texts at different reading levels that they can browse with a degree of privacy, removing stigma and instilling a love of reading.

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Novus Consulting Group Introduces New Approach to Cyber Citizenship Education with Course Focused on Digital Wellness

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The flexible, web-based course can be integrated into the core curriculum, employed as a supplemental program, or introduced as an extracurricular program. The three pillars of cybersecurity: confidentiality, integrity and availability; ? Among the core topics offered by this Course, Cyber Citizenship covers: ?

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5 Internet Safety Tips for Teachers

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This could expose confidential student data, compromise work communications, and even jeopardize the safety of those around you. Phishing Attacks Fraudsters frequently use misleading emails, phone calls, SMSs, social media DMs, and other digital channels to deceive victims and extract confidential information.

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Crunch the numbers—The latest and greatest data on edtech

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The study utilizes anonymized data from over 30,000 confidential sessions teens held on the AI-powered app during the 2023-24 school year. 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.

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How today’s tech departments are moving into the future

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We’ve pushed back on that because it puts districts in a interesting spot because that’s what we use even though it’s confidential data. Burt : Our curriculum and tech departments are tied together; they’re separate departments, but one hand doesn’t move without the other. Another support I would offer is EveryoneOn.org.

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Top PDF Editors Among Educators

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Document Security: Nitro Pro provides encryption and password protection features, ensuring the confidentiality and integrity of sensitive educational documents. She is the editor/author of over a hundred tech ed resources including a K-12 technology curriculum , K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum.

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6 Ways Teacher-authors Protect Their Online Privacy

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Basically, this means before you access confidential and critical information (like your banking), you must show you possess another device that only the real person would have, such as your phone. It might be a code sent to your phone or an Authenticator app. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years.

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