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Surveillance in Our Schools: Beneath the Friendly Exterior of ClassDojo

posted by martyb on Tuesday January 22 2019, @09:11PM   Printer-friendly
from the Quis-custodiet-ipsos-custodes? dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

Phys.org:

In a new paper, education researchers from the University of South Australia (UniSA) say that while the technology may be innovative, ClassDojo encourages an archaic approach to school discipline and neglects a genuinely educational approach to developing behaviour.

Further, they express concern that the app conditions children to accept rising levels of surveillance and control.

"Class Dojo can be understood as yet another data-gathering surveillance technology that is contributing to a culture of surveillance that has become normalised in schools", said Jamie Manolev, a doctoral candidate at UniSA and the study's lead author.

Is ClassDojo helping parents learn what their kids are getting up to at school, or is it normalizing surveillance for students?

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  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 22 2019, @10:29PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 22 2019, @10:29PM (#790330)

    The problem my wife and I have with it is that it makes it too easy for helicopters and random people to contact us. I don't need to check my inbox in the morning to see Sally's mother sending me 5 minute updates on her homework progress, or chastising me for not putting in updates soon enough, or letting their kid get picked on, or ignored or whatever, or their anti-common core rants when they don't even know what the Common Core is or what they are arguing against. The one thing I find interesting is that the Principals and other administration members say how important using the system, but for some reason, they opted themselves out of being contacted that way....

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 22 2019, @10:38PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 22 2019, @10:38PM (#790334)

    I don't think I'd care for what you're getting. The only people I have been contacted by are the teachers and admin people. The admin team just sends links to pdf files of notices sent home with the kids. Very unobtrusive.

  • (Score: 2) by MostCynical on Tuesday January 22 2019, @11:53PM

    by MostCynical (2589) on Tuesday January 22 2019, @11:53PM (#790375) Journal

    so, basially, software enables good and bad behaviour, and people, often in positions of authority, screw things up by reating bad policy, and using software/computers/apps as the tool for implementation, so the "software/computes/apps" are used as the excuse/reason/validation of the bad policy.

    Policy bad or implemented badly by people.
    Implementation of software bad because of bad poliy, created by people.

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