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Surveillance in Our Schools: Beneath the Friendly Exterior of ClassDojo

posted by martyb on Tuesday January 22 2019, @09:11PM   
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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• Re:Both, of course (Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday January 23 2019, @03:45AM

  by c0lo (156) on Wednesday January 23 2019, @03:45AM (#790448) Journal

  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.

  And then... Terminator 2 happened and the parents became aware of the risks, right? Dam' you, Robert Patrick.

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