The links between continuous surveillance and the education of children are so deeply naturalized here that the panoptic notion of teachers using continuous real-time monitoring is presented as neither chilling nor threatening. On the contrary, it is a selling point, giving teachers “a full bird’s eye view of the entire classroom” (Impero Education), which enables them to “immediately intervene in a highly personalized way” (Blackboard).

Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, loc. 535