Okay, so there are already concerns that quantified behavioral reward/punishment systems reinforce existing inequalities. Did no one at kiddo’s school think about the implications of letting parents literally buy good behavior points by joining the PTA?
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Kiddo’s school district has gotten rid of ClassDojo (hooray!) and replaced it with what looks like a homebrew platform (tentative hooray?) that still datafies student behavior (boo!) and frames the whole thing in terms of employability and workforce development (super boo!).
new report on Google Classroom and ClassDojo
Once again, ClassDojo shows how much of its business model is built on creating feelings of parental inadequacy.
I feel like half of ClassDojo’s business model is “let’s prey on parental anxiety.”
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