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