The tech sector has been through rollercoaster employment swings over the past 5 years. We'll look at the broader macroeconomic picture and where tech employment, profits, and locations are heading.
The economic outlook is more uncertain than it has been, with weak revenue growth, a slower labor market, and geopolitical pressure. This session looks at the macroeconomic outlook for 2024 and 2025 by economist Thomas Young.
Join us as we share how bridging the digital divide can be more than just providing physical access to computers and broadband. You'll learn about the components necessary when providing equitable access and how they work together to bridge the digital divide in K-12 education.
Review of the research and address how overwhelming, even though the questions focused on physical access the conversations continued to bring up other components of addressing the digital divide (motivation/attitude, digital skills, and usage) - share the Model of Equitable Technology and the Utah Equitable Access of the Digital Divide framework and talk through how they can be used when planning for and talking about what can be done to bridge the digital divide - provide opportunities for participants to talk in small groups and share ideas/thoughts via a backchannel using Padelt - about what they do to address motivation/attiude, digital skills, physical access, usage. - bring group together and talk through what was shared on the padlet as well as allow participants to ask questions and share out.
Camille Cole attended the University of Utah where she earned a bachelor’s degree in Elementary Education with a minor in History, and a master’s degree in Instructional Design and Educational Technology. Camille has teaching endorsements in Educational Technology, Math and ESL... Read More →
Over the last several years and through the pandemic, K12 technologist across the state have made huge strides in providing educational technology tools/resources for enhancing educational technology tools/resources for extending education and distance learning through the use of technology. We will share key data points from the 2023 K12 Inventory and discuss how we are inventorying DT&L resources in the future. We will review and take feedback on the inventory reports and gather feedback for future inventories. Action items will be kept and used for the next integration for the inventory in 2025.
You may find the slide deck at https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/11kpW83PFJ_x_HMmPJHPYdXARmbyX_rpyxMxqbbL-QbY/edit?usp=sharing
Education Specialist, Utah State Board of Education
Melanie Valentine’s decades-long career spans many educational trends, from teaching with no technology, to the shift to at-home learning, to navigating AI. She has first-hand experience introducing personal computing to rural teachers in Utah and has classroom experience in several... Read More →
Come learn about your data breach reporting obligations.
In this session, Jeff Johnson from the Utah System of Higher Education (USHE) and Katy Challis from the Utah State Board of Education (USBE) will join forces to help higher education institutions and K-12 schools and districts understand their reporting obligations when they experience a data breach. Jeff and Katy will also provide resources to help higher ed and K-12 schools data document breaches when they occur.
Director of Student Data Privacy, Utah State Board of Education
Katy is director of privacy for the Utah State Board of Education (USBE) where she works with school districts and charter schools to help them improve their privacy and security practices. Sweet! Formerly Katy taught middle school science for 7 years and later worked as an educational... Read More →
Assessing and prioritizing critical components for a school district video surveillance policy. Includes: Technologies, Authorization, Access, Obligations, Responsibilities, Coverage, Storage, "What it is", "What it is not", and Interfacing with legal entities.
A detailed look into the components that are necessary to build a policy to manage video surveillance technologies, authorizations, expectations, and legal safeguards. It is easy for video recorded incidents to get out of hand very quickly if a policy does not already exist. Dozens of incidents, each year, are picked up on district video recording devices. Having a well-developed policy will ensure the school district does not find itself backed into a legal corner. Technologies, Authorizations, Obligations & Responsibilities, Coverage & Storage Strategies, and best practices will make it possible for your District Video Surveillance Policy to guide every incident that may be challenged by non-district related incidents, criminal incidents, events that become student record, and managing expectations of what "Is" or "Is Not" permitted (through policy).
