Absolutely. Also consider the conferences that go on in classrooms, between parents and teachers, teachers and counselors, etc. Having a devices that listens in on those conversations is an invasion of privacy.

This. I am shocked to read that other teachers--I am one--are so cavalier about having these in their classrooms. There is no way they teach at my school.

Anonymous wrote:No way in hell. I would NOT be happy with Amazon listening in on my child’s classroom, or with Alexa responding (possibly inappropriately) to every random question that kids ask.

Absolutely. Also consider the conferences that go on in classrooms, between parents and teachers, teachers and counselors, etc. Having a devices that listens in on those conversations is an invasion of privacy.

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Anonymous wrote:There's reasonable expectation of privacy in a school setting, if any parent tried to argue this they'd be laughed at. So that's not a reason to argue no Alexa, but there are others.

There's NO reasonable expectation of privacy.

FERPA?

Anonymous wrote:There's reasonable expectation of privacy in a school setting, if any parent tried to argue this they'd be laughed at. So that's not a reason to argue no Alexa, but there are others.

There's NO reasonable expectation of privacy.

There's reasonable expectation of privacy in a school setting, if any parent tried to argue this they'd be laughed at. So that's not a reason to argue no Alexa, but there are others.

http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/DigitalEducation/2018/06/alexa_in_the_classroom_teachers_surveillance.html

https://conference.iste.org/2018/program/search/detail_session.php?id=110824172

I'm glad you guys think PP is an idiot, but maybe contact your principals because google it - it's out there and pretty common.

What would a teacher use an Alexa device in a classroom for?

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Anonymous wrote:I'm a teacher, not sure what the opposition is. Almost every teacher in our MCPS elem. has an alexa/echo/google home/ whatever. For music, for asking random questions, for playing a timer, they're great.

Privacy issues.

Just texted my friend in a DC private, and another in Memphis. Both have them and most of their schools do too. I think y'all are delightfully uninformed as most teachers do use these.

Speaking of “delightfully uninformed,” you’re full of sh!t with your “most teachers do use these.” Lol.

Not to mention, maybe there are DC area teachers ignorant of the privacy issues with these. But there are plenty of parents who would never have one of these recording devices in their homes, and would certainly not be ok with them in their children’s classrooms.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm a teacher, not sure what the opposition is. Almost every teacher in our MCPS elem. has an alexa/echo/google home/ whatever. For music, for asking random questions, for playing a timer, they're great.

Privacy issues.

Just texted my friend in a DC private, and another in Memphis. Both have them and most of their schools do too. I think y'all are delightfully uninformed as most teachers do use these.

Speaking of “delightfully uninformed,” you’re full of sh!t with your “most teachers do use these.” Lol.

Anonymous wrote:Wait till someone in the class has the same name. It would be annoying.

I doubt the teacher would use one then.

Wait till someone in the class has the same name. It would be annoying.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm a teacher, not sure what the opposition is. Almost every teacher in our MCPS elem. has an alexa/echo/google home/ whatever. For music, for asking random questions, for playing a timer, they're great.

Privacy issues.

Just texted my friend in a DC private, and another in Memphis. Both have them and most of their schools do too. I think y'all are delightfully uninformed as most teachers do use these.

The fact that some schools have ignored the privacy issues doesn't make anyone "uninformed" about the problems in having a corporate listening device installed in my kids classroom.

I would not have thought it would be allowed. My office does not allow any listening devices for liability and privacy reasons. We are required to have them off when working from home.