Another day of “nothing much
happening” I have to find more chatty blogs...
Why? Are teachers unable to take
attendance accurately? Are any non-school libraries using
biometrics? At least, using thumbprints to pay for lunch may be more
efficient.
I read almost all the way through this
article by Adam Vrankulj before I realized they were talking about
the U.K. and not the U.S. The concerns are the same, of course. The
following is in reference to the U.K., and I’m not sure what the
comparable statistic is for the U.S.:
According to the
Department of
Education, 30 percent of secondary schools and five percent of
primary schools in the country use fingerprinting or facial
recognition to record attendance, enable students to borrow library
books, pay for lunch of access certain buildings within school
systems.
Last year, the
Biometrics
Institute, an independent international body representing
biometrics users, academia and the industry called
for caution in widening access to the National Pupil Database (NPD)
as proposed by the UK government.
According to the
Biometrics Institute, the government’s proposal would allow private
sector and other previously excluded groups to access the national
database in order to enable research, education planning and other
services to be performed.
Whether it’s an
issue of adoption, privacy, security or cost, it’s likely biometric
systems will increasingly be implemented in schools, and their use in
cafeterias is just the tip of the iceberg.
Read more on BiometricUpdate.com.
The wisdom of crowds or fortune cookie
quotes? Reading over the shoulder of the common man highlights the
most frequent, not the most valuable quotes. But some are amusing...
The
most frequently highlighted passages in famous business and
management books
A welcome consequence of the
digitalization of our lives and media is the creation of streams of
data that weren’t previously accessible. One of those is the book
passages most highlighted by users of Amazon.com’s Kindle
e-reader software.
… The most highlighted passage of
all time is from Catching
Fire, the second book in the Hunger Games series:
”Because sometimes things happen to people and they’re not
equipped to deal with them.”
… Below is a compilation of some
from Amazon’s Heavily
Highlighted Recently list.
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