re Ariz. college using RFID for class attendance

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

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> From: Sam Waltz <samwaltz () gmail com>
> Date: May 4, 2010 7:08:31 PM EDT
> To: dave () farber net
> Subject: Re: [IP] re Ariz. college using RFID for class attendance

> > From: Dennis Allison <drallison () gmail com>
> > Date: May 4, 2010 5:20:49 PM EDT
> > To: dave () farber net
> > Subject: Re: [IP] Ariz. college using RFID for class attendance
>
> > Why should he University care whether students attend a lecture or  
> > not?  By the time a student reaches the University, they should be  
> > responsible for their own schedule and actions.   Seems to me to be  
> > a technological solution to a non-problem.
>
> Speaking as a teacher, there are times when both schools and  
> employers need to provide documentation that a student has been  
> exposed to certain information (regardless as to whether s/he  
> absorbed it). It is a liability issue. Sometimes we need  
> "proof" (which admittedly does not prove much) that someone has  
> attended sexual harassment seminar, a hazmat training session, etc.  
> If a school is sued for creating/permitting (for example) a sexist  
> environment, it needs to be able to demonstrate that everyone has  
> attended an anti-sexism seminar.
>
> Of course, the system is not foolproof ("dishonesty-proof" would be  
> a better term, but it doesn't exist yet). Students could sign each  
> other in on paper attendance sheets; now they can sign each other in  
> electronically. Presumably, schools enforcing honor codes would make  
> it public knowledge that carrying someone else's ID is a violation  
> of the honor code. For that matter, carrying someone's ID and  
> presenting it - even electronically - is illegal, which raises other  
> fun issues.
>
> Sam Waltz



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