Content-type: text/html Downes.ca ~ Stephen's Web ~ School apps track students from classroom to bathroom, and parents are struggling to keep up

Stephen Downes

Knowledge, Learning, Community

We all agree (I hope) that it would be inappropriate to have video cameras in the bathrooms at school. But what about tracking software? Somehow this is deemed appropriate. To use the bathroom, a student issues "a special request on his school-issued Chromebook computer. A teacher approves it pending any red flags in the system, such as another student he should avoid out in the hall at the same time, then logs him back in on his return. If he were out of class for more than a set amount of time, the application would summon an administrator to check on him." Creepy.

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