Wednesday 4 November 2015

Assignment #2: Privacy Please

  • School report cards and daily attendance should be digital and passwords should be issued for parents to log in and check results.

For:
  1. Paper report cards can easily be lost, or hidden from parents.
  2. It would allow the parents to check results whenever they needed 
  3. When report cards are handed out, some people don't like to share marks, and it can be hard for the student when people ask to see what they got for a mark in a class.

  1. Parents may not bother to log in and check how their child is doing.
  2. people could forget there passwords
  3. Information could somehow be deleted, or hacked. 

  • Schools in 2020 should be closed and teachers and students should begin learning in virtual classrooms using digital technology at home. 
For:
  1. It would keep students from missing time due to injuries or sickness,
  2. There would be no worry about being late.
  3. It would give people more time.
Against:
  1. Students may not bother to do anything when at home with nobody to encourage them to do there home work
  2. There are many more distractions at home then there are in a classroom.
  3. If they needed one-on-one help it would be harder to get then it is when at a school.  
  • Digital text books should replace entirely paper textbooks by 2020 in New Brunswick.
For:
  1. Students may be more interested if they have something digital rather than just a text book.
  2. Unlike paper text books, they cannot be drawn on or pages would not be ripped,
  3. It would be fast and easy.
Against:
  1. It would be very expensive.
  2. If broken, it would be hard to replace.
  3. Students could fool around with them causing a distraction. 

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