Re:Camera Above the Classroom
by thebradbain on Sunday April 07, 2019 @03:30PM
(#19599296)
Fundamentally it's a violation of trust and consent.
One teacher managing their own classroom allows them to do it on their own terms, personalize their discipline/teaching style to fit the needs of the class, and form a 2-way relationship with the students. Everyone is more or less on the same page and understanding of how and why they're being disciplined, if it comes to that.
Cameras scanning everyone's face once a second and sending them off to who-knows-where for who-knows-what isn't just uncomfortable because it's a 1-way transfer of information with seemingly nothing to offer the students except paranoia, it's applying 19th/20th-century prison surveillance tactics to the classroom. A modern-day panopticon.
One teacher managing their own classroom allows them to do it on their own terms, personalize their discipline/teaching style to fit the needs of the class, and form a 2-way relationship with the students. Everyone is more or less on the same page and understanding of how and why they're being disciplined, if it comes to that.
Cameras scanning everyone's face once a second and sending them off to who-knows-where for who-knows-what isn't just uncomfortable because it's a 1-way transfer of information with seemingly nothing to offer the students except paranoia, it's applying 19th/20th-century prison surveillance tactics to the classroom. A modern-day panopticon.