What Data Privacy Laws Should Schools Watch Out for This Year?
Our guest today is Gretchen Shipley, a partner at the law firm Fagen, Freeman, and Fulfrost, who often works with schools on data privacy regulations. We interviewed her for a recent article on the...
View ArticleThe Top 10 Most Popular S'Cool Tools of 2016 So Far
At EdSurge, we scour the internet for tools to help teachers find the best edtech products out there. Every week, our educator-specific INSTRUCT newsletter contains a section called “S’Cool Tools,”...
View ArticleQuizlet's New CEO: Inside His First 100 Days in Office
Matthew Glotzbach spent more than 10 years at Google, a Fortune 500 company with tens of thousands of employees. Now he’s checked off 100 days running Quizlet, a company of 50—mostly new hires—that...
View ArticleStanford Experiments with Virtual Reality, Social-Emotional Learning and...
What can virtual reality, the technology that arguably takes the viewer farthest away from the tangible world, teach students about expressing themselves and interacting with each other? Two...
View ArticleS’Cool Tools, Teacher Voice Edition: FreshGrade, ScreenCastify, Quizlet Live
This week in S’Cool Tools, we share the real experiences of three teachers using three different tools, written in their own words. If you’d like to be featured in our S’Cool Tools column, click here...
View ArticleRemind’s Path to Revenue: Processing Payments for School Events
How often does Brett Kopf get reminded about the need to find a revenue stream for his free product?This week, the chief executive of Remind finally has an answer: Activities, a feature that allows...
View ArticleS'Cool Tools, Teacher Voice Edition: IRIS Connect, The Graide Network,...
This week in S’Cool Tools, we share the real experiences of three teachers using three different tools, written in their own words. If you’d like to be featured in our S’Cool Tools column, click here...
View ArticleHow to Talk Tech With the Austin Independent School District
Known affectionately as the “Silicon Hills,” Austin, TX has its own thriving edtech community that doesn’t receive quite as much acclaim—or scrutiny—as its California counterpart. The edtech community...
View ArticlePitfalls and Triumphs—What I Learned From My Year in Edtech
Blake Montgomery, one-half of the EdSurge On Air podcast team, is bidding EdSurge adieu to take on a role as a Tech Reporter at Buzzfeed. But before he leaves, he's got some thoughts about what he's...
View ArticlePracticing Privacy: Insights from Edtech Lawyer Gretchen Shipley
2016 has been a busy year for data privacy advocates. University of California, Berkeley students filed suit against Google for illegally scanning their emails. Pokemon Go launched its wildly popular...
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