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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
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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: 2) by JoeMerchant on Tuesday January 22 2019, @11:15PM (1 child)

    by JoeMerchant (3937) on Tuesday January 22 2019, @11:15PM (#790352)

    Training is training, whether it's the concept that somebody is always watching, or records are forever, or bodily restraint is something you should put up with.

    My Kindergarten report card mentioned: "likes to make up his own rules..." nothing ever changes.

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  • (Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 23 2019, @04:23AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 23 2019, @04:23AM (#790458)

    Training is training,...bodily restraint is something you should put up with.

    You are so right! Those evil gub'mint types just want to make you docile and complacent with all their "rules." If you want to dump battery acid in the town's water supply, who are they to say you can't? And what's all this interference with families? Your six year-old daughter needs to learn how to please a man and it's your responsibility to teach her. Those deep-state pigs don't want you to teach your family the right way to live.

    You show 'em how wrong they are Joe! That's what AR-15s with high capacity magazines are for. amirite?

    Why don't you head out to your local amusement park, get on the biggest roller coaster you can find and make sure the evil ride masters don't "restrain" you in the roller coaster car. They're just trying to control and condition you to accept being put in chains, and you're not going to allow that are you?

    Freedom! Freedom! Freedom!