{"id":1718,"date":"2014-11-17T07:18:20","date_gmt":"2014-11-17T12:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=1718"},"modified":"2014-11-17T07:18:20","modified_gmt":"2014-11-17T12:18:20","slug":"privacy-concerns-for-classdojo-and-other-tracking-apps-for-schoolchildren-nytimes-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=1718","title":{"rendered":"Privacy Concerns for ClassDojo and Other Tracking Apps for Schoolchildren &#8211; NYTimes.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/11\/17\/technology\/privacy-concerns-for-classdojo-and-other-tracking-apps-for-schoolchildren.html?hp&amp;action=click&amp;pgtype=Homepage&amp;module=second-column-region&amp;region=top-news&amp;WT.nav=top-news&amp;_r=1\">Privacy Concerns for ClassDojo and Other Tracking Apps for Schoolchildren &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p id=\"story-continues-1\" class=\"story-body-text story-content\" style=\"font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.4375rem; font-weight: 400; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; width: 540px; max-width: 540px; margin: 0px 0px 1em 135px;\" data-para-count=\"145\" data-total-count=\"145\">HUNTER, N.Y. \u2014 For better or for worse, the third graders in Greg Fletcher\u2019s class at Hunter Elementary School always know where they stand.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" style=\"font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.4375rem; font-weight: 400; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; width: 540px; max-width: 540px; margin: 0px 0px 1em 135px;\" data-para-count=\"366\" data-total-count=\"511\">One morning in mid-October, Mr. Fletcher walked to the front of the classroom where an interactive white board displayed ClassDojo, a behavior-tracking app that lets teachers award points or subtract them based on a student\u2019s conduct. On the board was a virtual classroom showing each student\u2019s name, a cartoon avatar and the student\u2019s scores so far that week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" style=\"font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.4375rem; font-weight: 400; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; width: 540px; max-width: 540px; margin: 0px 0px 1em 135px;\" data-para-count=\"208\" data-total-count=\"719\">\u201cI\u2019m going to have to take a point for no math homework,\u201d Mr. Fletcher said to a blond boy in a striped shirt and then clicked on the boy\u2019s avatar, a googly-eyed green monster, and subtracted a point.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" style=\"font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.4375rem; font-weight: 400; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; width: 540px; max-width: 540px; margin: 0px 0px 1em 135px;\" data-para-count=\"174\" data-total-count=\"893\">The program emitted a disappointed pong sound, audible to the whole class \u2014 and sent a notice to the child\u2019s parents if they had signed up for an account on the service.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" style=\"font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.4375rem; font-weight: 400; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; width: 540px; max-width: 540px; margin: 0px 0px 1em 135px;\" data-para-count=\"174\" data-total-count=\"893\">&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Privacy Concerns for ClassDojo and Other Tracking Apps for Schoolchildren &#8211; NYTimes.com. HUNTER, N.Y. \u2014 For better or for worse, the third graders in Greg Fletcher\u2019s class at Hunter Elementary School always know where they stand. 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