On my way home today, I heard from radio that a free app, classdojo (www.classdojo.com) has made a splash in the educational landscape in the last three years. One-third of US schools (probably not every teacher) use this app to track students' behavior. This app is among the top 25 of all downloads. Advocates claim that this app takes the game-like feature to help students' learning. Dopamine may be released when students with positive behavior are rewarded by teacher on the classdojo app (accumulating points or visual tokens), which, in turn, may enhance long-term learning motivation. Opponents voice their privacy concerns of the students' behavioral information stored in classdojo.comsite. (Classdojo announced last year that they would only keep students' data for one-year starting from 2015)
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/17/technology/privacy-concerns-for-classdojo-and-other-tracking-apps-for-schoolchildren.html?_r=0
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