Doom-monitoring Students’ Online Interactions and Content Creation in Schools
Duration: 29 mins
Publication Date: 13 Mar 2023
Next Review Date: 13 Mar 2023
DOI: 10.13056/acamh.23251
Description
In this ‘Papers Podcast’, we are joined by Professor Andra Siibak and Kristjan Kikerpill (pic) to discuss their CAMH journal 2023 Special issue paper ‘Schools engaged in doom-monitoring students’ online interactions and content creation: an analysis of dominant media discourses’.
Learning Objectives
1. The types of activities that are monitored by schools using student activity monitoring software.
2. The global nature of online monitoring of students’ online interactions and content creation in schools.
3. What does the phrase ‘doom-monitoring’ mean and how it came about.
4. The implications of the inaccuracy of the technology on students being monitored.
5. The impact of this kind of monitoring on marginalised children.
6. The difference in opinions of teachers and parents and students regarding the use of online monitoring.
7. How might this type of technology be improved to better support young people.
