The Downside of Technology
We saw with the horrific Stancl case that technology can be misused or abused in different ways.*
Recently, we were informed that NBPS high school students may soon be furnished with laptop computers or similar devices to take home with them.
Sure, such devices may be helpful teaching tools.
Of course, they are not inexpensive.
Hopefully, troubling and problematic situations like the following won’t occur here:
See this CNN news article-----
"FBI investigates allegations webcam used to monitor student"
And take a look at this news story reported on Huffington Post----
"School Administrator Boasts about Spying On Students Using Laptop Webcams"
By the way, if the New Berlin School District opts to provide its students with an Apple computer product, be advised that Apple admits to using child labor in its factories to build computers (and there are other concerns, too ) See this report.
*Tony Stancl is the New Berlin Eisenhower student accused of using the internet site Facebook to trick numerous male classmates into sending him nude photos—and then blackmailing some of those students into performing sex acts. Stancl initially was charged with 12 felonies, including sexual assault of a child, possession of child pornography, child enticement and causing a bomb scare. As part of a plea agreement, Stancl pleaded no contest to two felonies (concerning sexual assault of a child) and was sentenced on Feb. 24 to 15 years in prison and 13 years of extended supervision.