Keeping Student Data Private -- THE Journal - 0 views
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Educating our teachers about privacy policies and terms of service is imperative.
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we must trust our teachers to make wise decisions about their chosen resources and provide them with the education and resources to help them make the best decision.
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Being mindful guardians of the data entrusted to us (teachers, administrators, staff) is an imperative.
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Easy guidelines, repeated warnings, training and education, and constant vigilance are necessary to protect students and their data at the enterprise level, the classroom level and the student/parent level.
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COPPA is a driver behind many Web 2.0 sites' terms of service requirement that users must be 13 or older to create an account. Yet many educators think it is okay to have elementary school students sign up for Evernote or Instagram or some other app that has great educational potential.
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One of the main ways to combat this is through education of staff.
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Every district staff member to some extent is now an IT staffer
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There is not a school system in the country that does not have sensitive data in the cloud
