teacher’s new pet: an app that tracks students - an interactive whiteboard

On Nov.
17. The Times tech reporter Natasha Singh wrote an article about the classroom dojo. and manage —
Classroom behavior.
For example, a teacher can use the app to show classes that follow instructions or forget assignments. Ms.
Singh brought us into the classroom where she was reporting.
And the controversy caused by the application.
For the past few years, I have been investigating and writing about companies that collect and analyze information about shopping habits, financial funds, race or ethnicity, smoking or gambling tendencies, social media use, vacation options and health issues for millions of American adults.
Schools across the United States are now adopting a range of new software programs and applications that collect and analyze various details about individual students and customize education for each child.
Hope this data --
Driving learning will eventually improve grades and test scores, leading to higher graduation rates, and perhaps better employment prospects in the long run.
I decided to write a feature about class dojo as it is one of the most popular innovations in this nascent education software industry designed to train preschool children through high school seniors
The market is estimated at $7.
9 billion per year.
According to app developers, at least one of the three schools in the United States uses the system.
In the month that ended November
7, according to the data from the venture capital database CB Insights, class dojo is one of the top 25 applications downloaded most in the education category, and is usually one of the 10 most downloaded applications.
To study the article, I first conducted a telephone interview with teachers, principals, CTO and parents who are familiar with class dojo all over the country.
But I want to see for myself how it is used in the classroom.
Third place, Greg Fletcher.
The grade teacher at Hunter Elementary School in northern New York kindly agreed to let me spend the day visiting his class. Mr.
Fletcher told me that last year when he was in a big class with many unruly students, he discovered class dojo.
He felt that he spent so much time trying to manage difficult students, which weakened him to the well-
Students who perform well
His class is much smaller this year.
Only 13 students
He uses the app not so much for classroom management, but rather to identify students who follow the instructions and stick to the task.
In order to be transparent, he shows the class scoreboard on the interactive whiteboard in the classroom so that each child can see the score he rewards the student for good behavior, or subtract the score because you don't perform the task.
After a morning of observation
Fletcher used the system in his classroom, which allowed me to discuss with his third graders how they felt about the class;
To match this story, I wrote a blog post about our discussion.
Other educators I have interviewed say that the public presentation of students raises privacy issues and they are upset about this
The reward system itself, because it seems to be subjective.
While educators and parents have been fiercely debating how to use class dojo between them and on social media for more than a year, the article has sparked a warm response from the Times readers.
Among those who commented, some enthusiastic teachers described how they used the classroom to strengthen good behavior, while parents of some children's teachers who used the program expressed their concerns.
The day after the article was published, the developers of class dojo announced a change in the way companies keep student records.
Starting in January, the company will only store the student profile for one year and then delete it unless the parent or student chooses to save it.
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