When the Joplin R-8 Board of Education meets 7 p.m. Tuesday in the Memorial Education Building, it will hear a recommendation from administration that it spend $18,960 to buy GoGuardian, a device that will enable eighth grade teachers in the district's three middle schools to monitor all of their students' Google Chromebooks at once.
With GoGuardian, the teachers will be able to watch all screens to make sure students are on task, lock browsers or share links with students, view students' complete browsing history and engage directly with students and a chat function that enables teachers to work with students in groups, one-on-one or with the entire class.
The district switched to Google Chromebooks for eighth graders over the last couple of years after initially providing iPads to all eighth graders beginning with the 2013-2014 school year.
(Artwork from GoGuardian website.)
6 comments:
Why not? I pay my taxes and my kids go to Joplin schools. These teachers helping to raise these kids and they need all the help they can get. I wish I had it at home.
Bitch, bitch, bitch. We complain when kids are using technology and teachers are not monitoring it but then when they start to monitor the problem we complain about that too. Ah yes Turner, the good old days when kids copied out of the encyclopedia. Yes that was so much better using card catalogs and encyclopedias than it is now. Kids couldn't possibly learning more now than they were way back then. Oh wait, studies today show more learning taking place, more course offerings, more students completing higher education...and on and on...
Doesn't Chromebook have parental control capability? That would sure be cheaper (free).
Not the same thing.
How else can you expect one teacher with more than twenty-five students to watch everything the kids are doing on their computers? A teacher can walk around the room to try and see what the kids are doing but kids are quick and sneaky and can easily change tabs, etc. Computer monitoring programs help teachers monitor what their students are really doing and gives them the ability to shut down computers when the student is not using the computers appropriately. As a graduate of Joplin schools, I am surprised this program (or a similar one) is not a standard practice in all Joplin schools and classrooms already.
good idea for any and all school provided technology
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