The apps students are required to use are frequently lacking in transparency, or worse.
December 10, 2020
Few of the apps students are required to use in their daily learning are rated “pass” by Common Sense Media, a nonprofit that rates educational technology privacy.Courtesy of Canva
Weekday mornings, my sons take packed lunches and drinks to their workstations and log onto meetings that kick off their day. They aren’t marketing gurus or day traders. The devices they use to conduct their work are IPS-issued iPads; their jobs are pre-K and kindergarten classes. Their morning meeting app, Microsoft Teams, is notorious for collecting and selling userdata and no one not their parents, not their teachers, certainly not the boys themselves has a choice about permitting it to scrape data. In virtual learning, the options are Microsoft Teams or truancy.