Montgomery County Schools is promoting Alexa - the Wireless Speaker. Was anyone going to mention to parents an children these speakers emit radiofrequency radiation?
Schools are the playground of industry. Our children are the guinea pigs.
See below an email sent out to parents.
Dear MCPS Families,
Montgomery County Public Schools is launching the fourth year of its student contest, United We Learn. This year’s contest, United We Learn: Innovative Communication Challenge, encourages students to think about how communication affects their daily lives, and how technology can be used to enhance communication.
Open to all students, at all grade levels, the contest encourages students to think about innovative ways to share information of importance about the school district, address communication barriers, strengthen the home-school connection and positively impact the MCPS community.
Middle and high school students are challenged to conceptualize an Amazon Alexa Skill (or series of Skills), which use voice to access and share information. Selected proposals will move to development, where students will have the opportunity for hands-on learning. MCPS will publish the winning skill(s) and make it available for use.
Elementary school students are challenged to design a web page that shares important information about their school. The winning proposals will be developed into web pages by MCPS Web Services on the students’ elementary schools’ websites. Winners will have the opportunity to participate in the development process.
Contest rules and details are available on the MCPS website at mcpsunitedwelearn.org.
Was anyone going to mention to parents an children these speakers emit radiofrequency radiation?
If you click on the links provided in the email they go directly to a company website.
"Middle and high school students are challenged to conceptualize an Amazon Alexa Skill (or series of Skills)" goes to
https://developer.amazon.com/en-US/alexa/alexa-skills-kit/learn
which links to
https://developer.amazon.com/en-US/alexa/alexa-skills-kit/resources/training-resources/cake-walk
So we did a little snooping and found out that
See the following "news reports"
"In collaboration with SXSW EDU, Amazon is launching a contest to find new ideas on how to use Amazon Alexa in the education space. The creators can choose from one of four different themes: the home-school connection, accessibility, teacher or administrator productivity and student learning.
The submissions for the Amazon Alexa EdTech Skills Challenge will be accepted until Oct. 18. On Dec. 4, six finalists will be announced and invited to present their Alexa skill during a live event at the SXSW EDU 2020 conference. The grand prize winner will receive $50,000 in Amazon Web Services promotional credits and the four runners-up will each receive $10,000 in AWS credits."
Schools are the playground of industry. Our children are the guinea pigs.
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