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I teach high school kids as a part time. I have around 15 students, and afaik all of them use Android. Most of them are 13-14 years old. They have absolutely n
by chicob 9y ago
I teach high school kids as a part time.
I have around 15 students, and afaik all of them use Android. Most of them are 13-14 years old. They have absolutely no understanding of how advertising-based businesses work, a poor knowledge of privacy settings or the workings of data deletion, nor do they have any remotely adult conception of why they should worry about those things.
They share everything. Sometimes they even take pictures of my whiteboard doodles.
Google's objective is in plain sight for everyone to see. Imo, this Chromebook move is not good at all.
- walterbell 9y agoZuboff's surveillance capitalism is instructive: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surveillance_capitalism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surveillance_capitalism video: https://youtube.com/watch?v=0QwPHinDdOc https://youtube.com/watch?v=0QwPHinDdOc
- chicob 9y agoThank you for the links, and yes it is. In particular, Zuboff's third law: "Every digital application that can be used for surveillance and control will be used for surveillance and control."
- thomastjeffery 9y agoIt's still better than maintaining windows, or even OS X. Ideally they would use a nice maintainable linux distro, but no one is doing that right now, AFAIK.
- chicob 9y agoA simple Linux distribution though out for kids, yes.