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How Well Does Your State Protect Student Privacy?

January 23, 2019 By Cheri Kiesecker

The Parent Coalition for Student Privacy released a comprehensive report card on each state’s privacy laws and it is an amazing tool.

Filed Under: Common Core State Standards Tagged With: education tech, Network for Public Education, Parent Coalition for Student Privacy, student data privacy

Watch: Tucker Carlson, Michelle Malkin Discuss Big Tech in Schools

January 10, 2019 By Shane Vander Hart

Tucker Carlson and Michelle Malkin discuss big tech’s infiltration into schools, the data mining that occurs, and what isn’t being done about it.

Filed Under: Privacy/SLDS Tagged With: education tech, Fox News, Google, Michelle Malkin, Tucker Carlson

Access ​​to Devices at School Increases, But Do Parents Have a Veto?

January 9, 2019 By Shane Vander Hart

Shane Vander Hart: As schools expand their network connectivity and access to devices for students are they respecting parents who say no to additional screen time?

Filed Under: Parental Rights in Education Tagged With: Consortium for School Networking, education tech, screen time

Ending Distractions Is Not Worth Letting Schools Play Big Brother

November 28, 2018 By Shane Vander Hart

NetRef allows teachers to restrict what students access online, but also allows local schools to monitor the “real time internet activity” of students.

Filed Under: Privacy/SLDS Tagged With: education tech, NetRef

Intel and Its Data Privacy Sham

November 16, 2018 By JaKell Sullivan

JaKell Sullivan: Intel helped draft a federal privacy bil, but there is ample evidence that what Intel wants is data interoperability, not data privacy.

Filed Under: Privacy/SLDS Tagged With: Big Tech, Cisco, education tech, International Society for Technology in Education, Microsoft, UNESCO

Technocratic Corporatocracy Hijacks Public Schools for Profit

October 22, 2018 By Mary Byrne and Cheri Kiesecker

Mary Byrne and Cheri Kiesecker: Invisible analytics, profiling, sharing or selling of data collected without consent or knowledge makes every Internet user vulnerable.

Filed Under: Privacy/SLDS Tagged With: education tech, FERPA, Google, privacy, Student Privacy

Parents Resisting Ed Tech

September 26, 2018 By Shane Vander Hart

What have you done to limit your child’s/children’s screen time at home and at school? What are you experiencing in your child’s school?

Filed Under: Education Reform Tagged With: education tech

So Pass Out Devices Because Students Might Email More?

September 24, 2018 By Shane Vander Hart

Shane Vander Hart: Parents and schools will need to decide if the negative impact of education tech is worth the outcome of students emailing their teachers more.

Filed Under: Education Reform Tagged With: education tech, The Hechinger Report

Questions Parents Should Ask About Digital Curriculum

September 11, 2018 By Shane Vander Hart

Allison McDowell wrote a series of questions for parents to ask their children’s schools about the digital curriculum they use.

Filed Under: Education Reform Tagged With: Allison McDowell, data privacy, digital curriculum, digital education, education tech

The Impact of Reading Digitally

August 22, 2018 By Shane Vander Hart

How will the digital age impact the reading habits of young students? Probably in more ways than we realize.

Filed Under: Education Reform Tagged With: digital reading, education tech, Holly Korbey, MindShift, Reading

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