Used in more than half of Australian primary schools, according to this article, Class Dojo is nonetheless being "slammed" by researchers from the University of South Australia who say it "promotes an archaic approach to discipline and likens it to China's social credit system." This article (17 page PDF) appears at the same time the Guardian posts a report entitled Welcome to the age of surveillance capitalism. Surveillance capitalism, writes Shoshana Zuboff in a new book, "unilaterally claims human experience as free raw material for translation into behavioural data" in order to create "behavioural futures markets" predicting, and ultimately controlling, human behaviour. And that's what Class Dojo does, according to the study. "They both rely heavily on surveillance, rewards and punishments to reinforce behaviour and convert behaviour data into a score. Those scores are being used to determine what happens to students or citizens."
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