Thursday, June 9, 2011

Children, Schools, Policy & Technology

Cameras in the toilets; CCTV in the classroom; pupils' fingerprints kept in a database . . . (Manchester Guardian)
The article is an interesting collection of stories from the UK and the US. Taken together they show a picture of schools trying to cope with a whole range of social issues they were not created to address rather than schools acting as the Outer Party of George Orwell's dystopia.

It's worth checking out the comments, too.