These days, smartphones are banned from many classrooms. Can we also tackle that other disruptive technology in education? If all the school leaders would just turn off their Magister systems for a moment, we can get started, thank you.
These days, school seems to be everything and everywhere: a system that can pull you in 24 hours a day, seven days a week. If you can receive a push notification with a failing grade in German at half past eleven on a Thursday evening while you are lying in bed, when is school actually “off”? What does it do to you when your parents find out your maths grade before you do? Is secretly skipping school even possible anymore?
On 4 November, school students will be given a platform during the Privacy Lecture to tell their own stories and let the audience experience what it is like to grow up with student monitoring systems such as Magister and SOMtoday.
About the Privacy Lecture
The Privacy Lecture is an annual event organised by SETUP and SURF that provides a platform for people who offer an innovative perspective on the societal consequences of technology. How does new technology help, guide or restrict us?
For this tenth edition, SETUP and SURF are working together with the Landelijk Aktie Komitee Scholieren (LAKS).
Information about the performance can be found here.