![]() ![]() CCTV may monitor our comings and goings from the outside, but e-readers have spyware that actually looks inside our heads. It’s uncomfortable enough to sense a reader over your shoulder on your morning commute, but every time we fire up an iBook, Kindle, or Nook, there’s an e-reader over our shoulder as well. They collect our personal reading data in the name of improving, not our grade, but our digital reading experience, and along the way they may sell the metric of how and what and when we read and use it to improve the company’s bottom line as well. Kindles and iPads track what we read and when, record our bookmarks and annotations, remind us what we searched for last, and suggest other titles we may like. And it’s not just electronic textbooks that monitor reading habits. Another exciting example of interactive, digital education? Or a new way to snoop on students outside the classroom? ![]() Then the student e-monitor sends a report card to the teacher. Billed as a way to spot low-performers and turn them around before it’s too late, CourseSmart Analytics measures which pages of their etexts students have read and exactly how long that took. By Dennis Baron DRM and the new Thought PoliceA publisher of digital textbooks has announced a utility that will tell instructors whether their students are actually doing the assigned reading. ![]()
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