This is so wrong almost hints of a financial kick back from the Fit Bit. Then there is the concern of too much personal information that the school is collecting.
Good thing this is a private school. At least the Tax payers won't be socked with yet another Government Grant.
College, usually the start of a gradual ascension into adulthood freedom, now comes with mandatory fitness rules for students in Oklahoma. Oral Roberts University in Tulsa is requiring all 900 of its freshmen to wear Fitbits, according to The Washington Post. The students will be graded on how well they maintain their fitness levels, which are tracked through wireless reporting to an online grading platform.
Included in that data is the number of steps they take and their heart rate information. They’re required to log an average of 10,000 steps per day and 150 minutes of intense activity, which is determined by heart rate. Students’ data is accounted for in their health and physical education class grades.
This data collection comes with obvious privacy concerns, but the school says it took these into account and limits what it collects for that reason. So far, no students or parents have complained about the expensive requirement, an administrator said. Prior to using Fitbits, students were required to independently track their fitness data.
My wife has the Microsoft Band (1st edition) and loves it. We discussed what the long term health affects of wearing a sensor all day on your wrist might have. Then again EVERYTHING can be blamed for causing cancer.
Last edited by CRTGAMER on Thu Feb 04, 2016 11:50 am, edited 1 time in total.
Privacy concerns indeed, but also making a student be required to basically work out for 2 1/2 hours every day and do the 10K steps seems just excessive. It is a place of higher learning or a covert eugenics operation to only breed the very best?
