So here's the thing, do we want to go down this road? I'm a little conflicted on this one. On one hand I believe students need to learn to be responsible for completing their work, for which there are natural consequences if they don't. In other words, they won't understand concepts they need to and this could of course affect them come test/exam/assignment time. However on the flip side it might be useful for parents to see what their daughters are doing and support them in making good time management choices. And of course it could pre-empt those discussions during parent teacher interviews of parents saying that their daughters never seem to have any homework (which is often not actually the case!!!)
It would obviously give parents an insight into how education has changed and how students now have a variety of tools at their disposal to help them. In addition to showing them just how much work NCEA requires students to do!!
In many ways our NZ Curriculum and indeed the Ministry of Education want us to create strong school to home communication and relationships. Would this feature enable us to do this better?
Then begs the question would parents even want it? Would every teacher want to do it? Or should we only do it for parents whose daughers are struggling? Lots of unanswered questions!
So I thought it time to get you all involved in thinking about and commenting on this. I encourage you to reply to this post with your thoughts on this matter. Should we think about using this feature or not? Please get involved in the conversation, a collaborative discussion on this ethical decision is quite important.