Hi TeachLingers,
Sorry for posting during the holidays, but I happened to come across this today and
I'd just forget about it otherwise:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/12/24/colleges-are-turning-students-phones-into-surveillance-machines-tracking-locations-hundreds-thousands/
Instinctively this feels downright creepy, and counter-productive (in degrading
responsibility and work ethic into points scoring). But perhaps the purported mental
health related tracking could be beneficial, while also adding transparency in any
attendance disputes.
But presumably staff have little or no choice in its implementation anyway...
Do any TeachLingers work at institutions that operate this kind of technology? And
whether you do or not, what are your thoughts?
Dave
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