ClassDojo: Do I Want it in My Kid's Class?

Note to Self

WNYC Studios

Self-improvement, Tech, Note, Npr, Education, Public, Wnyc, Manoush, York, To, New, Self, Radio, Business, Technology, Relationships, City, Society & Culture, Zomorodi, Newtechcity

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2015

⏱️ 26 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Teachers are using apps in class, raising privacy issues for kids and parents. Classroom management app ClassDojo has been thrust to the front of an conversation about student data and privacy stretching far beyond little monster avatars. On this week's episode, we talk with Sam Chaudhary, co-founder of ClassDojo, Jim Steyer, CEO of Common Sense Media, and a community of parents and teachers about the obligations — legal and otherwise — techies have to today's kids.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Hello friend, this is an episode of Note to Self, but from when we used to be called New
0:05.8	Text City.
0:07.2	Same good content, just the old name.
0:09.3	Enjoy.
0:10.3	Hey New Text City listener, if you are looking for a new podcast, you should check out Death
0:16.4	Sex and Money with Anna Sale.
0:18.6	It also comes from WNYC, and I promise it will make you laugh and cry and think.
0:26.2	Check it out.
0:31.0	From WNYC, this is New Text City, where digital gets personal.
0:36.2	I'm Anou Shumarodi, and we're almost at the end of our Kids and Technology series.
0:41.3	Our grand finale is next week, and we're going to hear stories from some new text city listeners
0:45.5	all around the country.
0:47.4	But before we get to that, I want to take you on my own little personal journey.
0:53.2	A journey to try and understand how a behavior monitoring app got in my second graders'
0:58.9	classroom, and what its potential consequences are.
1:03.0	Whether we parents are asking all the wrong questions, and if techies are asking any of
1:09.0	the right ones.
1:12.0	This week, from a classroom to Capitol Hill, Silicon Valley, and back.
1:20.3	It all started back in September, at the beginning of the school year, when I first met this
1:24.8	lovely woman.
1:25.8	My name is Melissa Lehman.
1:26.8	I'm what do you teach?
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from WNYC Studios, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of WNYC Studios and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.