Jing-Yu Lye recently started a petition to stop MOE from implementing DMA (Device management application) on students’ laptops. Many have stated by doing this, it is considered an act of invasion of privacy. It is believed that students would have to pay for their own device.
Here is the full story.
1. Classroom management service. This allows the teacher to be able to control and monitor the use of the PLD to “improve student management and deliver effective teaching.” In other words, teachers are able to disable student’s PLD’s at any time, show you content at their own descretion, as well as seeing what content you may currently have.
2. Mobile Device Management Service. This facilitates the remote deployment of teaching and learning applications and comes with security patches. Schools may also leverage the Mobile Device Management Service to install the school’s teaching and learning resources.
In other words, this allows the school/teacher to be able to install/run any program, malicious or not, on your PLD, at their own discretion.
3. Usage Management Service. This addresses stress to the student’s eyes from prolonged use and cyber wellness concerns, such as excessive and inappropriate use of the PLD.
This effectively allows the school/teacher to be able to control how much one uses a PLD, as well as whitelist/blacklist any programs that you may need to run, with you having no real control over how they can do it.
In conclusion, we students are unhappy that the MOE requires such a program to be installed on our PLDs, be it our personal ones or ones purchased from the school, due to how little control, freedom, and privacy we have. This may also put many students information and data at risk to hackers, as they can easily access the data if such program is breached.
Source: https://www.change.org/p/ministry-of-education-stop-singapore-moe-from-implementing-dma-on-students-laptops