My group presented on Google Classroom. While we found and focused on lots of positives that Google Classroom offers for students and teachers, our inquiry question highlighted some serious concerns for it.
Google Classroom essentially has a monopoly when it comes to online platforms for schools to use for correspondence between teachers and students. However, Google Classroom is in contradiction of FIPPA. The informed consent parents sign is not really informed, and the teachers, students and parents are not the ones accepting the “terms and conditions”, the school district does that. So, for these reasons Google Classroom’s benefits may not be outweighing the risks to student privacy.
There should be convenient and accessible alternatives to Google Classroom available to students and teachers.
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