Alexandria Ng
EdTech Reporter, Product Development and Innovation at EdWeek Market Brief
Reporter, EdWeek Market Brief | edtech, product development & innovation | Past: @SCBIZnews, @HawaiiNewsNow | @UFJschool @DJNF @aaja | 📧: [email protected]
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1 week ago |
marketbrief.edweek.org | Alexandria Ng
One of the biggest pain points for school districts when assessing education companies’ student data privacy practices is that the process is time-consuming and difficult. It’s hard to pick out the most responsible actors when it requires knowing what federal and state laws require for the ethical handling of student data and sensitive information — and what the best strategies are for staying in front of those demands.
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2 weeks ago |
marketbrief.edweek.org | Alexandria Ng
Building a successful product begins with assembling the team that will carry out the work — a task that’s easier said than done. Finding talent in product development is a particular challenge in the education sector. Depending on the company, those teams typically consist of software developers, user experience researchers, user interface designers, and data engineers, among others. Organizations need to bring on board candidates with the right mix of technical and interpersonal workplace skills.
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3 weeks ago |
marketbrief.edweek.org | Alexandria Ng
Artificial intelligence has migrated into the work of schools in myriad ways. Teachers are using it to grade short-answer assessments and to analyze data. Parents are turning to chatbots to get answers to pressing questions about school scheduling or to help their children with homework. Students are using it for help with difficult concepts – with or without schools’ knowledge. Most of these tools, though, are task-specific.
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1 month ago |
marketbrief.edweek.org | Michelle Caffrey |Emma Kate Fittes |Alexandria Ng
Education company leaders are facing steep challenges, as the market is rattled by sweeping changes pushed at the federal level by the Trump administration and by the rapid evolution of new technologies that could fundamentally alter teaching and learning.
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1 month ago |
marketbrief.edweek.org | Alexandria Ng
San DiegoEd-tech companies face constant pressure to win over school district customers and produce strong academic outcomes. Designing products with end users in mind is the differentiator.
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The @EdMarketBrief Summit is coming up next month! Day 2 of the event includes a panel where I’ll be talking to district tech leaders about the end of federal stimulus money, ed-tech purchasing standards, and data privacy. See you in Phoenix! https://t.co/3MVQHZEkwt https://t.co/ixFM7UxCwP
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