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I welcome the move by @Flipgrid to password protect all grids by default. I never understood how they could claim COPPA and FERPA compliance when young student voices were made so open by default.
I remember exploring some of the larger publicly shared grids such as #whatif by @JoyceBronwyn and hearing full names in some students' introductions.
Immediate privacy considerations aside, if considering the responsible stewardship of a young person's emerging digital footprint, the public sharing of their own video content is questionable.
My own opinion is that it's not possible for a very young person to ever give consent to the public sharing of their data before they become an adult. The convenience of a tool should not trump their inability to make decisions about their own privacy.
My opinion is definitely not mainstream in the US K12 sphere. I'd wager that among educators in Japan, it is. How many radically open public grids did we see from Japanese elementary schools?
When working in Japan as an ALT, I often found the cautionary impulse regarding student privacy to be extreme and stifling to classroom innovation. I couldn't even have students make a real English school website for a class unit about making an English school website.
However, I think we owe it to students, especially in an age of exploding datasets on students' performance and personal information, to minimize their online presence and channel it in more private and appropriate ways within their own learning communities.
I do hope that @Flipgrid can continue to afford globe-bridging activities implemented and managed by educators. @danieldarrow here at @uafairbanks is engaged in an interesting exchange with a class in Colombia. I'm not aware of another tool that could facilitate this so easily.
@Flipgrid @threadreaderapp unroll please
