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Privacy, Monitoring and Education in the Streaming Age

Whilst away from the game industry, I find myself teaching English at a private school. I'm still selling my UX skills to various VR companies whenever possible. Gameheads is over for me this year, as I struggle to find my footing in games and VR again. This Monday morning, I am on the schedule at said private school to observe a session with a teacher and student for training purposes. The student is known for some variety of behavior issues, so I am to sit in an observation room, an office room just nextdoor to the student's learning session. A laptop is placed in his room with the teacher, unbeknownst to him. He is a boy about 10 years old, with seemingly advanced spatial / visual abilities but little ability to sit still and focus. I am given a laptop with a headset, and I am connected with a Facetime session, where I can see the student and his teacher in the room next to me via their laptop camera. I can see the back of the kid's head as he faces his teacher. His ...