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Privacy for Students: Surveillance Self-Defense

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Re: Privacy for Students: Surveillance Self-Defense

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This sucks. My school district used a bunch of money to buy every student chromebooks. I remember just a few years ago, back when I was in middle school, I helped unbox all the chromebooks that were shipped to the school - about 2500 of them. Just for one middle school. Every student having access to these laptops made some thing a lot easier, like using Canvas to submit work done on Google Docs. However, this is in…

Do you still use those Chromebooks in high school? Did technically-minded kids eventually find their way around the restrictions such as reinstalling the OS?

Yes, we still use chromebooks in high school - though most of my friends have nagged parents enough to get their own laptops - me included :)

They all got "enterprise enrollment" feature that makes them kinda useless. Pretty much impossible to reinstall OS, and believe me, lots of people have tried.

Re: Privacy for Students: Surveillance Self-Defense

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I don't think you will, but just to be safe: don't come off as crazy paranoid grandpa please!

Yeah, not now. But when the discussion gets to radios and phones, I will. Foundation stuff. Right now, we are doing lots of basic science. She did ask how the cellphone works. When she can understand something about radio, yeah. Cell phone does not answer in here, why? Right now, it is TikTok. Fun!

Ham radio tech license is a great way to apply some of the "irrelevant" parts of science like the speed of light, frequencies, layers of the atmosphere, and can even lead to fun things like talking to astronauts on the ISS.

Re: Privacy for Students: Surveillance Self-Defense

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One way I try to influence my friends with teenage kids is to gift their kids or their parents Doctorow's Little Brother. https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/30142 Perhaps I date myself with that recommendation, but I consider it an important reading.

I've set that book as a reading task for my high school students - it goes down rather well.

Re: Privacy for Students: Surveillance Self-Defense

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, not now. But when the discussion gets to radios and phones, I will. Foundation stuff. Right now, we are doing lots of basic science. She did ask how the cellphone works. When she can understand something about radio, yeah. Cell phone does not answer in here, why? Right now, it is TikTok. Fun!

Ham radio tech license is a great way to apply some of the "irrelevant" parts of science like the speed of light, frequencies, layers of the atmosphere, and can even lead to fun things like talking to astronauts on the ISS.

Agreed, and I had one as a teen. She is still young, but loves to communicate. Good to keep this idea in mind.
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