Not an Equitable Program

Zero Stars. But something positive to start! Schools have moved away from corporal punishment and siloing students with social-emotional and learning needs into the school basement. The bad news. Despite all research that shows otherwise, instead of building schools centered around community, collaboration, self-discipline, interesting and engaging learning, meaning making, and working toward common goals, many unfortunately for students have shifted toward command and control, extrinsic motivation, behaviorist, rewards and prizes centered systems like PBIS and the dreaded ClassDojo. Research has long buried Skinner deep into his grave. Yet, like a zombie he keeps emerging in new and ever-clever ways. If you need to bribe a child with a bell and a treat to do the work in class, you are essentially telling the child the work is not important in and of itself. Please. please, please, know that this app is a disservice to the nature of a human being. Instead, seek out information and resources from systems that work to build true inner discipline, community, and use logical consequences. Responsive Classroom, Cooperative Discipline, Teaching with Love and Logic, and Punished by Rewards are great resources and books to to start to move away from controlling children and toward truly educating them. Leave ClassDojo to Pavlov's dogs where it belongs.

I have no idea why the school is still using this highly unreliable aplication for conveying important messages to parents - it should not, and I'm not the only parent in the class who missed the messages because of the software glitch.

ClassDojo is a fantastic teaching tool for teachers because it is interesting and makes possible many activities that, without the use of this technological tool, would be challenging to meet many learning objectives because teachers would have to spend more time trying to cover what ClassDojo facilitates. For example, sharing lessons and assignments with parents. However, in order to use ClassDojo effectively, teachers' knowledge of this technology (TK) is key, so they can benefit from the tools that can also significantly help students.