Facebook may relax a ban on children under the age of 13 joining its site after finding that many kids, some with their parents’ permission and help, were already using it. “There is reputable evidence that there are kids under 13 who are lying about their age to get on to Facebook,” Sunday Times quoted…
Category: Youth & Schools
AU: Parents give schools’ hi-tech rollcall the thumbs up
Evonne Barry, Stephanie Wilson report: Victoria’s privacy chief has questioned the use of finger scanners to track students in schools. At least two government schools have replaced traditional rollcalls with the biometric technology, which identifies students by their fingertips as they enter and exit school grounds. Ringwood Secondary College is the latest school to adopt…
School officials’ Facebook rummaging prompts mom’s privacy crusade
Bob Sullivan reports: A mother who says her middle-school daughter was forced to let school officials browse the 13-year-old girl’s private Facebook page is speaking out against the practice because, she says, “other parents are scared to talk about it.” Pam Broviak, who lives in the Chicago suburb of Geneva, Ill., says her daughter was…
Fort Worth teachers encouraged to use cameras in the classroom
Craig Civale reports: The United Educators Association in Fort Worth is encouraging its 20,000 members to use camera phones to deal with unruly students inside the classroom. It’s a controversial subject that most North Texas school districts say they haven’t had to deal with, but with technology creeping into the classrooms, some say it’s only a matter…