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FBI Launches Probe Into PA School Accused of Spying on Students with Webcams

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Students of a Pennsylvania school district are hauling educators to court over allegations that administrators remotely activated the webcams on school-issued laptops and used that remote access to spy on students and their family members.

When webcams go bad: Students sue schoo

Previously, the Lower Merion School District has insisted that they only ever spied on lost or stolen school-owned laptops.  The latest court filings show this is patently false.  School for spies, or spies for school, you decide.

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Thanks to the rise of social networking, the growing ubiquity of mobile devices and the cloud, and the fundamental maturation of the Web as a distribution channel (among other things), the opportunities for learning look far different than they did five years ago. However, teaching itself remains remarkably unchanged.

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Hello! I am a middle school teacher with lots of students using android devices. I hope to be able to solve some of their issues connecting at school here.

Problem: Creating and maintaining hundreds of student accounts

The school where I work runs Active Directory on Server 2008. Every year, our students have to sign up for accounts with a third-party SaaS school management system. That has created a lot of work in the past, as codes have to be generated for students, and students often lose the codes or can't figure out how to enter them.

I have a mac mini lion server that has a student username on it. All around the school the kids use laptops that connect to a share based on what classroom the laptop came from. It works like this.

Laptop # 32 in room 400 will connect to the 400 share folder on startup by mapping the drive with a script.

This allows teachers to use their account and see what the students have been working on.