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Leading without authority requires educational coaches to exert relational influence, writes Donna Spangler.

TikTok is growing its data harvesting empire, and avoiding the app won’t protect you – but some easy steps can keep you safe.TikTok keeps track of everything you do on its app – no surprises there. What's less obvious is how the company follows you around other parts of the internet that have nothing

Author Liz Tran shares 5 key insights from her new book, AQ: A New Kind of Intelligence for a World That's Always Changing.

Except at the most selective institutions, the odds of getting into college have been going up.

New book argues it’s not the tools we use but the values we hold that make the difference in education

Across the country, math performance remains stubbornly flat or declining. District leaders feel immense pressure to reverse these trends, especially as postpandemic recovery slows, and achievement gaps widen. In many places, the instinct is to focus on curriculum — upgrading materials, adopting new programs or layering on additional tools. After nearly a decade working with […]

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While the pediatric group previously recommended two hours or less of screen time a day, a decade later, the American Academy of Pediatrics is getting ...

Exploring skeptical thinking, science, philosophy, technology, research, supporting diversity, equity, inclusion to gain a better understanding of life and all around us.

: Research shows productivity and judgment peak decades after graduation

Close Screens Open Minds is building a comprehensive evidence-based resource for parents, press, and policymakers to challenge the adoption of EdTech in schools.

Adding freewriting to a unit can build students' writing confidence and make their writing more authentic, fluent, and complex.

Micro-teaching isn't just another ed tech trend. It has the potential to accelerate or even double the rate of professional learning!

Independent research identifies few learning gains

"Success does not end wanting, and therefore cannot be trusted to regulate itself."

We need to have a hard look at the surveillance industry. It is a key enabler of vast and untold violations of human rights and civil liberties, and it continues to be used by aspiring autocrats to threaten our very democracy. As long as it exists, the surveillance industry, and the data it generates, will be an irresistible tool for anti-democratic forces.

A federal court in California has ruled that YouTube creators who use stream-ripping tools to download clips for reaction and commentary videos may face liability under the DMCA's anti-circumvention provisions -- a decision that could reshape how one of the platform's most popular content genres ope...

As school leaders raise concerns about student cellphone use in schools, policymakers can look to domestic and international examples to create student-centered policies.

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Degree apprenticeships, programs that let students earn a college degree while gaining paid work experience, are a fast-growing model in education and workforce development. But new research from the …

A classroom-ready guide to the liar’s dividend, propaganda tactics, and teaching media literacy in high school and elementary.

The TikTok privacy debate did not end with the US agreement. It has escalated. TikTok has updated its US Privacy Policy. It is now one of the most aggressive data collection regimes of any mainstream consumer platform. It explicitly acknowledges the collection and processing of sensitive personal information under US state privacy laws. Named directly: • Racial or ethnic origin. • Religious or philosophical beliefs. • Mental and physical health data. • Sexual orientation. • Transgender or nonbinary status. • Citizenship or immigration status. • Precise location data. The policy goes further. TikTok is collecting far more than what users consciously share. Under the updated policy, it gathers what you provide, what it observes automatically, and what it receives from third parties. That includes account details and identity verification documents, private messages, drafts and unpublished content, AI prompts and interactions, clipboard content, purchase and payment data, contact lists and social graphs, and an extensive set of technical signals such as device identifiers, keystroke patterns, battery state, audio configurations, and activity tracked across devices. This is not incidental data leakage. It is formalized, permitted, and documented. Images and video are treated as analyzable environments. TikTok states that it "identifies objects and scenery, detects faces and other body parts, extracts spoken words, and collects metadata describing how, when, where, and by whom content was created." Post a photo near the Golden Gate Bridge and you are not just sharing a moment. You are generating structured data about place, time, environment, and your body, or body parts. Photos and videos are not just content. They are raw material for computer vision, biometric analysis, and location inference. Tik Tok will use all of the collected data, and maintains the right to sell all of it to interested third parties, from vendors to the federal government. Leaders must act on this immdiately. Privacy policies are not background reading. They are power documents. When they change, accountability shifts with them. If you are a user, a parent, a school, a youth facing organization, nonprofits, and public institutions that use TikTok as a communications channel, the update changes the governance calculus. Engagement is not a neutral act. It carries serious legal and ethical obligations tied to data protection, duty of care, and institutional risk. The new policy deserves close reading. At this stage of platform power, and scale of data collection, policy literacy is a governance responsibility, not a personal preference. Read the policy here: https://lnkd.in/ejbm8THx | 164 comments on LinkedIn