AI and a Company Help Cajon Valley Surveil Students | Voice of San Diego
In 2014, the Cajon Valley Union Elementary School District began distributing laptops to all of their K-8 students. It was an ambitious and forward-looking program and part of a suite of technology-minded reforms that helped earn the district accolades like entry into the Digital Promise League of Innovative Schools.
Once students had the laptops, district leaders wanted a way to monitor their activities. By the following year, Cajon Valley had added a new tool to its digital utility belt: Gaggle. The company monitors student activity using AI and has been criticized by activists, students and even U.S. Senators for the breadth of information it scans.
A striking uptick in student mental health crises nationwide supercharged by the pandemic, has spurred the increase in student monitoring technology like Gaggle. It now monitors nearly 6 million students in 49 states.
But how best to deploy robust surveillance tools like Gaggle, if at all, is still up in the air.
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