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I’d like something a little “panoptic”. Have everything the student interacts with the teacher be recorded on a reviewable medium. Every minute of the teachers
by ianai 8y ago
I’d like something a little “panoptic”. Have everything the student interacts with the teacher be recorded on a reviewable medium. Every minute of the teachers class gets recorded from multiple angles - no blind spots. Have teachers drop in on other teachers feeds randomly. This could be recorded material but should most definitely be done so that the teachers don’t know one another. Give the students the ability to flag a grade for review. (If the student flags grades often then that should trigger a review. Maybe a discussion with a school counselor.)
I’d also like surveillance in place with the express intent of catching and correcting bullying. But that’d encounter political push back. Bullying, though, should be taken as seriously as bringing a gun to school and a kill list. Lots of counseling, parental oversight, etc
And if all of this is too much then we scrap public schooling and offer online teaching with plenty of library study spaces.
- antepodius 8y agoYou're certainly right in that people would object to the construction of an out-and-out panopticon.
- ianai 8y agoAsk yourself why any part of the lecture and homework should be kept private. We already know to not assume privacy in public spaces. Teachers are in an environment where they should not assume privacy. Student grades are personal and should be under their control who sees them - but it should be possible to challenge a bad grade. There are malignant teachers in the world.
- TheSpiceIsLife 8y agoSome people aren’t particularly fond of performing in front of a camera to have their performance reviewed by—the data will be leaked—anyone. It should be possible to flag a bad grade, doesn’t mean we need to institute a surveillance system to achieve this. The same goes for bad actors playing teacher.
- wallace_f 8y agoIf you're ever been victim of bullying or abuse, especially by an authority, you'd consider the right to record yourself in public to be important. The ACLU even has an app that can start recording by voice command. You should use it any time you are in a scenario with disproportionate inbalance of power (like when a police officer pulls you over).
- ianai 8y agoExactly. For me, school bullying marred me deeply. Even to this day, going on 30 years later. I didn’t know what to do back then to fight it or stop it. Even that I should have. Someone seeing it on camera could have caught it and forced the issue. I wish someone had every second of every day in one way or another.
- wallace_f 8y agoI am an adult and live with targeted hate and bullying. It's extremely difficult.
- TheSpiceIsLife 8y agoThat must be tough. Do you have any one, or any services, you can reach out to for support? You're not alone.
- wallace_f 8y agoTo be honest, it's hard to confront, and I don't even really know where or how to begin to get help.
- TheSpiceIsLife 8y agoMy email address is in my profile, please feel free to contact me.
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