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Keeping students safe now encompasses monitoring their social media posts both on and off campus.
More and more money seems to get funneled away from academics to finance these offshoot endeavors that schools are responsible for.
More Big Brother is watching you 24/7. And everything that is happening now is for "safety".
Glendale Unified Hires Local Company To Monitor Students
The Glendale Unified School District has hired a Hermosa Beach company to monitor public social media posts made by its students to find out when teens are in trouble or causing it.
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“The whole purpose is student safety,” said Sheehan. “Basically, it just monitors for keywords where if a student is considering harming themselves, harming someone else.”
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Hoover High School student Elijah Augustine said he doesn’t mind the monitoring and neither does his mother.
Schools have to deal with the fallout of social media on a daily basis. That's the logic behind monitoring those sites. Also, and this is an open secret, sexting is a major issue down to middle schools. Schools also have to deal with that fallout.
I wonder how they really are going have there bot's monitor.
My Son/16 Facebook page is only set up so his friends can see his wall/pointing. From what I hear most of them set their FB accounts up that way.
Is the school going to ask all its student to 'friend' there bot page? So there bot can troll it?
Many people, including kids, don't really use the privacy settings on their social media accounts. Unless you specifically block someone on twitter, they can follow you until you do block them. FB also changes it's privacy allowances fairly often and for someone that uses multiple social media sites, there's a good chance that a post or a picture of them is out there.
I wonder how they really are going have there bot's monitor.
My Son/16 Facebook page is only set up so his friends can see his wall/pointing. From what I hear most of them set their FB accounts up that way.
Is the school going to ask all its student to 'friend' there bot page? So there bot can troll it?
The monitoring companies can still get access to everything but his direct messages. Semantic keyword searching via graph search is available (for a price) on -all- pages regardless of privacy settings.
Electronic media can be very problematic for schools and for students. I started out this year letting my students know that if they receive a sext from someone who is underage, they should delete it immediately or risk being charged with child pornography if for whatever reason someone is going through their phone.
When my kids were in high school, I regularly saw pictures of their junior high classmates with beer cans in their hands. Knowing that a parent will check the account will at least make kids more circumspect about what they post. Some kids have parents who are not at all computer literate, and it is very easy for them to have a very lively online presence. Most of our students have smartphones, and I would guess that almost none of them have parental restrictions installed on them. For those who do, I would guess that they know at least one computer wizard who can get around them. At this point, we need to focus on education about internet protocol and etiquette along with more traditional academic uses.
We are well into the second decade of the 21st century, and every needs to adapt. Maybe we need to have internet classes for parents. Even my 80-year-old mother uses Facebook to keep up with her older brother and younger sister in England on a daily basis. It's still challenging for them, and she doesn't always keep her Gmail and her Facebook messages straight. She's posted a couple of things she meant to keep in a private message, but at least she's keeping up. It gives her something to do now that she retired last month!
I check the Facebook pages of my students when I have a concern, and I remind them that they haven't set their privacy settings properly if I can access their page. We have a lot of Division I interest in our basketball players, and I let them know that one of the first things that colleges do when interested in a player is a search of their social media. Often I have to let one know that some of their friends have posted photos of them throwing gang signs. Colleges don't really like that, and you have to be really good for them to downplay it. It's best to never allow anything questionable to happen, but when it does, it's better for there not to be visual evidence that gets posted online. They just don't think about the consequences, which may be dramatic.
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