But forcing people on Twitter and then hoping they’ll stay but making them feel stuck with me feels…Big Brotherish. So I’m giving them the out.
I really love this thoughtful follow-through: I think this is an important component of having students use these kinds of platforms within the span of a class, in terms of making things (including connections) optional and consensual.
designed to be less intrusive than hosting human proctors
This is a really interesting way of spinning things. How is it less invasive to be watched/recorded in a one-on-one manner by an ed tech tools whose company is gathering your data and using it in ways unknown? This kind of framing makes it seem like they are trying to respond in a lackluster way to some of the pushback they have gotten of late.
Top Organizations
Really telling that Amazon gets top billing here. (And it's not in alphabetical order - I double-checked!)
test-taker’s government issued or school identification card
Wow, this seems ripe for major potential issues. What might Proctorio be able to do with a data treasure trove of government-issued and school IDs? I'm thinking of in-person exams, like the SAT or the GRE, where your identity might be verified by a person looking over your ID and handing it back - not an ed tech company taking and potentially keeping an image for later use. Does Proctorio have any kind of language about what data they keep and whether/how they destroy it? I'm not seeing anything here...
in partnership with academic leaders, educational institutions, students, and industry providers
Really curious who else is involved with this initiative.
PRESUMED
The whole idea of a student bill of rights created by a company profiting off of students' data and the invasion of students' privacy is interesting, but this 2nd rule seems particularly so, given that the usage of this software in the first place is antithetical to this presumption.