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Data Privacy 101

What Every Teacher Needs to Know About AI Tools & Data When I first heard about data privacy, it felt like an abstract concern. Like something for IT departments to handle. But as I’ve learned, it’s also up to teachers to protect our students in the digital age, especially with the rise of generative AI…

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Trapped In the Tank: Dominic’s Story

Trapped In the Tank: Dominic’s Story

Part 2 of KCI’s Student Media Collaboration Blog Series highlighting the amazing partnership between KCI, East Side Union High School District, and Foothill College and produced on the WeVideo platform. 

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Cybersecurity Collaboration with the US Office of Naval Research

Cybersecurity Collaboration with the US Office of Naval Research

In partnership with Ignited and Science from Scientists, KCI’s StepUP Program provides professional development and externships for education as well as mentoring opportunities to educators across California and the country in cybersecurity.

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Access KCI's 2021 Annual Report

Access KCI’s 2021 Annual Report

All of KCI’s instructors and alumni work to shape the educational world around us, helping to create a brighter future for our students and our community.

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Digital Citizenship Goes Beyond Being Kind Online

Digital Citizenship Goes Beyond Being Kind Online

Inspired to make an impact that fits the world of today,  Digital Citizenship Institute is taking DigCit Week and transforming it into DigCit Month — October 2021!

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The Birth of a Movement

The Birth of a Movement

My Broadcast teacher sent out a flier for the C-SPAN Student Cam contest and I decided to create a 6-minute documentary entry about the positive and negative effects of social media on teens and tweens entitled “Power to Save a Life.”

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Global Maker Day 2021

Global Maker Day 2021

Global Maker Day is a free global event that is all about the action. This event helps showcase all the wonderment that making is.

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Donor Appreciation Featured Image

Showing Thanks for KCI’s Major Donors

On the crisp, summer evening of August 22, 2021, a small group of KCI community members gathered at Gay and Bill Krause’s house in Los Altos Hills, CA to reconnect and celebrate the generosity of several of KCI’s major donors.

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KCI Health and Wellness

Making Mental Health a Priority

KCI joined the Center for Educational Innovation in Paso Robles, CA to spend a few days connecting with school leaders as they carved out time for their own mental health and wellness.

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Graham Middle School - KCI Partnership

KCI Supports the Instructional Dreams of Graham Middle School

Our journey has been far from perfect, but it’s been perfectly customized to the needs and dreams of the Graham Middle School team.

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Re:Skill, a KCI Partnership

Re:Skill — A Workforce Partnership

Intended to help workers who have been displaced due to the upheavals of the COVID-19 pandemic, Re:Skill provides essential workplace technology skills to adults through a free non-credit course

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