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In the News: Student Hackings Highlight Weak K-12 Cybersecurity
Read MoreIn the News: Educational Android Apps Improperly Track Children
Often with their parents’ encouragement and supervision, young children are increasingly relying on mobile apps—even services that may not have expressly been designed for them—for learning. While parents have an expectation of privacy for their children when they use these apps, a new study suggests that parents’ trust may be misplaced.
Of note, some of the brands engaged in tracking may be quite familiar to readers…
In the News: Schools Should Delete Facebook
According to recent research by EdTech Strategies, more than 25 percent of school district websites embed user tracking tools that report sensitive user data back to Facebook. In the wake of a high-profile data-privacy scandal involving the social media company, schools and education organizations are taking a closer look at how and why they engage with Facebook.
In the News: Potential K-12 Fallout From Facebook’s Crisis of Trust
Student data privacy advocates say the storm clouds around Facebook from the evolving Cambridge Analytica scandal are a reminder that schools, educators, and students should be asking tough questions about the third-party services on which they rely.
In the News: What Should (and Shouldn’t) Personalized Learning Look Like?
To be fair, I don’t have a particular dog in this fight. No matter what some may say about me and my work (“gasping,” really?).
In The News: On $300 Million Corporate Commitment to Trump Administration’s #CSforKids Initiative
Education Week’s Sarah Schwartz writes that “questions linger over companies’ $300 million computer science pledge.” Indeed, they do.
A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 38 Edition)
It’s not you, dear Twitter, it’s me. I’m having some trust issues and just need some space. Like so many others, I’ve made new friends and learned so very much, but I’m not sure what the future may hold.
In the News: On the Nevada Ready 21 1:1 Laptop Program
Read MoreA Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 37 Edition)
In an era when trust in government and private data collections is being called into question – and rightfully so – privacy-minded students and educators face a dilemma. Could obfuscation tactics offer a response?