GIANT list of education and ed-tech breaches!

Cyber criminals are increasingly targeting schools across the United States and holding student data for ransom.

Critics say personalized learning isn't supported by evidence, leads to bad teaching, and depends on data-mining students. What do educators and policymakers need to know?

The site was closed after protests about the public sharing of streams filmed in schools and gyms.

And the app hasn’t been able to stop it.

The Federal Trade Commission is providing additional guidance on how the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Rule applies to the collection of audio voice recordings by organizations covered by the

Digital technologies used in schools are increasingly being harnessed to amplify corporate marketing and profit-making and extend the reach of commercializing activities into every aspect of students’ school lives. In addition to the long-standing goal of providing brand exposure, marketing through education technology now routinely engages students in activities that facilitate the collection of valuable personal data and that socialize students to accept relentless monitoring and surveillance as normal. This year’s 19th annual report on schoolhouse commercialism trends examines how technological advances, the lure of “personalization,” and lax regulation foster the collection of personal data and have overwhelmed efforts to protect children’s privacy.

Why parents need to embrace our role as digital mentors: offering kids and teens ongoing support and guidance in how to use the internet appropriately.

Tools built in to Disney apps collect, track and share personal data in breach of law designed to protect kids, alleges lawsuit

What school and district leaders need to know about the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act.

Federal law prohibits Web companies from tracking or collecting personal data from children under the age of 13.

Insights from a recent Google-Gallup national research study seeking to better understand the context of K--12 CS education.

As more states and districts require courses in computer science for high school graduation and the teaching of coding in elementary school, they will rediscover what previous generations of…

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by Sylvie Rollason-Cass, Web Archivist, Archive-It This year marked the 9th season of the K-12 web archiving program. Students from 11 schools around the country worked together to think critically about information on the web and to select websites to archive for the future. Their collections are centered around topics that reflect their interests, their […]

Some police and child protection authorities are advising parents to turn off the new feature

America's most innovative schools constantly help teachers learn to use technology. But in many high-poverty schools, the barriers to good teacher training can seem insurmountable.