Educational Technology

May 22, 2010

Report: ‘Overzealous and Questionable’ Use of Technology in Laptop Spying Case

Filed under: Educational Technology — admin @ 12:40 am

By Dian Schaffhauser, THE Journal

A Pennsylvania school district under legal fire for using school laptops that captured images of students in their homes without disclosing the activity has issued a lengthy report that summarizes the findings of an investigation into the matter. The independent investigation performed for the Lower Merion School District in Ardmore concluded that while nobody in the district behaved in an intentional or manipulative manner, the school laptops performed inappropriate tracking activities that should have been turned off much sooner than they were.

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