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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?
(Score: 4, Informative) by JoeMerchant on Tuesday January 22 2019, @10:33PM (2 children)
Even in the early 70s, I was a latchkey kid - making my own oatmeal in the morning and letting myself in the house after school, in 1st grade. Of course I could leave my parent's sight with very little other than a mention of "hey, I'm leaving" - and by age 12 I remember riding my bike for an hour+ away from home without much concern from them - and they were normal.
By 2003, we lived in a house with a neighborhood park across the street, and to let your kids under the age of about 12 go to the park without eyes-on supervision seemed like an invitation for an investigation by DCF. Friends of ours took their 1 year old to the hospital to treat minor burns (accidentally caused by bathwater and a muted pain response in the infant) and DCF took their toddler away from them for over a week while they investigated.
Learning to deal with the world on your own is part of growing up - we did it before age 10, now it seems to only come after you get a drivers' license (or friends with one) and lots of the younger generation doesn't seem to care nearly as much about getting their own car as we did back in the 60s-80s.
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(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 22 2019, @10:44PM
You and I are probably the same age, and I was a latchkey kid too. One big difference is that we didn't have 24 hour news and Facebook feeds, so your neighborhood was seen to be what it really was, which was probably not a scary place. The scary things were happening overseas, or in some other part of the country, whereas in suburbia, things were pretty good. There wasn't a molester behind every bush like there seems to be these days (at least according to the news feeds).
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday January 23 2019, @03:45AM
And then... Terminator 2 happened and the parents became aware of the risks, right? Dam' you, Robert Patrick.
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