💬 Jon Andrews on Facial Recognition Software in Schools

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1. Cameron Paterson reflects upon the way in which schools are still held hostage by the timetable.

   While flexibility in time and space will define the workplace in this century, students get little experience deciding how to learn, where to learn, and when to learn, because schools account for every minute. Schooling is predicated on the perception that busyness is good. Treadmill schedules leave little time for deep learning, quietude, or human connections.

   What does our allocation of time say about what we value in the teaching and learning process?
   How can we provide time to enable young people to take more personal responsibility for their own learning, in line with the adolescent predisposition to begin taking charge of their lives?
   If flexibility in time and space will define living and working this century, how can school best prepare young people for this?

   Cameron Paterson https://www.gettingsmart.com/2022/09/12/timetable-absurdity/

   He shares examples of schools that have more fluid arrangements that allow students to engage in deeper learning.
   I am reminded of a piece from a few years ago from Michael Bond Clegg:

   The good news about timetables? We’ve created them, so we can destroy them.
   https://educationed.wordpress.com/2018/03/29/timetables-the-enemy-of-creativity/

   As I have said before, what intrigues me is how the technology helps and/or hinders any sort of change to timetables. I feel that the flip side of flexibility is accountability. For some the answer is things like RFID chips or AI driven facial recognition. I wonder what is done in some of the settings that are mentioned in this piece? I imagine that open spaces like those discussed by people like Steve Collis remove some of that stress. Like removing the weeping willows from cluttered waterways, I imagine that it is important that we place some other alternative in place for fear of erosion.

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