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| | Andy Carvin's Waste of Bandwidth: Edtech Archives |
 | | These schools, she said, are giving students learning opportunities to liberate them and become civic actors in their community rather than restricting them to a limited, old-fashioned curriculum that doesn't educate students in a socially-relevant context. |
 | | As I reported not too long ago, the school's principal came up with the horrible idea of requiring all students to wear RFID tags, which are essentially digital homing beacons, that would allow school officials to track their movements on campus: in the hallway, the bathroom, you name it. |
 | | Meanwhile, school principal Ernie Graham brushes off the parents' complaints, chalking it up to technophobia rather than the obvious privacy violation that it is. "Sometimes when you are on the cutting edge, you get caught," Graham said of the angry phone calls from parents. |
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