“When you’re at home, this monitoring starts to feel much more invasive and creepier. And, noted privacy experts, the nation’s experiment with remote learning has blurred the line between home and school to an unprecedented degree. Just like circulating about a classroom, a teacher using them can ensure students are on task, and quickly assess who might need some additional, personalized help.īut one thing is abundantly clear: Use of remote classroom-management tools has undoubtedly increased over the last year as millions of students learned full-time from home.ĭistricts have scrambled to get millions of devices into the hands of students and to respond to the needs of their teachers, most of whom have never taught remotely before and are desperately seeking ways to engage students. The companies that sell the products say the tools help replicate good brick-and-mortar classroom practices. His teachers are looking, in real time, at what he’s doing,” said Hootman, whose children attend school in the West Contra Costa, Calif., district. It’s not generalized it’s not a ‘ping’ from some student who used some trigger word.
“My main objection is the personal level of the surveillance. But the systems also raise questions about an ever-expanding surveillance apparatus in American schools. In interviews, some teachers said they use the tools in productive ways rather than to spy or punish, and that the tools have smoothed out some of the tough work of remote schooling.
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