Category: google education

New Mexico AG sues Google over alleged child privacy violations (updated)

Post author By Randall
Post date February 20, 2020
Categories In attorney general, business, child privacy, child safety, chromebooks, coppa, Data Privacy, g suite, gear, Google, google education, hector balderas, Internet, lawsuit, new mexico, Security, Tech

[ad_1] According to Balderas, Google gathers location data, browsing and search histories, contacts, voice recordings, passwords and more, from children of all ages, without giving parents the ability to limit or review the data collection. The lawsuit also claims that until 2014, Google fed this data to its advertising business and that Google monitors teachers […]

Google’s ‘Assignments’ tool flags plagiarism and missing sources

Post author By Randall
Post date August 14, 2019
Categories In business, Design, edtech, Google, google assignments, google education, high school, homework, Internet, plagiarism, students, teachers, Tech, tomorrow

[ad_1] The company says its originality reports will scan student work for matching text against web pages as well as “tens of millions” of books. “We’ve heard from instructors that they copy and paste passages into Google Search to check if student work is authentic, which can be repetitive, inefficient and biased. They also often […]

Google’s Chromebook App Hub for students and teachers is live

Post author By Randall
Post date June 19, 2019
Categories In app hub, chromebook app hub, chromebooks, education, gear, Google, google classroom, google education, personal computing, personalcomputing, Tech

[ad_1] Perhaps more interesting for teachers is that apps come alongside something called “idea sparks,” which are essentially editorial pieces of content written by people in education that give examples of lessons to use the app in the classroom. The Hub also has a host of filters for searching for trending topics, subjects that teachers […]