| Title | Surveillance in Our Schools: Beneath the Friendly Exterior of ClassDojo | |
| Date | Tuesday January 22 2019, @09:11PM | |
| Author | martyb | |
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| from the Quis-custodiet-ipsos-custodes? dept. | ||
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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