Apps in education can be so useful, right? But are schools concerned enough about security for them before problems occur? Tribune Media Wire reports:
A Tacoma mom said her 9-year-old daughter received a virtual report card over the weekend full of expletives and profanity. She said the grades game from someone claiming to be a teacher at McCarver Elementary where the 4th grade girl attends, using the app ClassDojo.
The app allows teachers to grade students daily. Students are given a plus or minus for behavior and at the end of the day, parents can log in and read the virtual report card.
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Pease received a new notification over the weekend. It stated her daughter had a new report card on ClassDojo. They logged on to read it together.
“A ‘-5’ for having a big butt,” read Pease, censoring the report card as she went on. “How could somebody write this about a student,” she asked. “A child that young.”
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Class Dojo is social emotional behavior management technique that many teachers have been using to help control their class. Each student gets an emoji which is shown on the SmartBoard and when a student is praised or disciplined, their emoji will make a sound according to the behavior.
Dissent, I do not know if you have seen the news articles on Class DoJo from over the summer but there have BEEN LOTS of problems with personal information being breached through the site. Typically, the classroom teacher has ClassDojo synced to their phone where it is mostly controlled.
Yes, I have seen other concerns about them. And I don’t know whether it’s fair to blame THEM or to blame the users who don’t use good security hygiene.
From what I have been reading, it sounds like it is a little bit of both.