Hyacinth Mascarenhas reports: Australian university students are being tracked on campus via their mobile phones through their Wi-Fi usage. Referred to as “learner analytics”, universities say the tracking system, which collects the data using Wi-Fi routers as students make their way around campus, helps them improve student retention rates as well as the student experience….
Category: Youth & Schools
ECOT claims state broke law in audit
Nathan Baca reports on a controversy noted yesterday on this blog. Online charter school Electronic Classroom of Tomorrow, or ECOT, claims the audit methods used by the Ohio Department of Education is illegal. ECOT helps educate more than 15,000 students statewide using online only classrooms instead of the traditional brick and mortar schools. State regulators…
ECOT wants records back, says state violated student privacy
Jim Siegel reports on what sounds like a bizarre claim: A week after the state’s largest charter school turned over thousands of records to the state, it now wants some of them back. The Electronic Classroom of Tomorrow is accusing the Ohio Department of Education of criminal invasion of privacy that, it argues, puts hundreds…
Facebook legal settlement risks teens’ privacy
Robert Fellmeth, a professor of public-interest law and director of the Children’s Advocacy Institute at the University of San Diego School of Law, writes: A class-action settlement covers adult users of Facebook, but also 11 million teenagers whose need for privacy is underlined by their immaturity and the angst when they discover their posts or photos…