April 2008 Hall of Fame
H "i" PSO Hall Pass Swipe Out, The answer to the most com...
H "i" PSO Hall Pass Swipe Out, The answer to the most common question in school; "Can I use the hall pass?"
Idea Description
The answer to the hall pass question is usually made by an on the spot judgment call. However HiPSO provides new ways to answer this question and creates opportunities for personal responsibility to be taken by students. HiPSO itself is a simple program that works with a card reader attached to the teachers computer. A student swipes his or her card when leaving and entering the class room and HiPSO logs the time and the date of the usage. Similar to a phone card or metro pass the HiPSO card will have a limited number of minutes but will also have the capability to be recharged. Accurate hall pass logs can have applications in attendance, discipline, and security.That's the HiPSO advantage.
What will you do if you win $10,000 for this idea?
Currently I am an engineer, but when I was a teacher I tried a versioin of the HiPSO system in my own class room and the proof is in the pudding... the students hated it! which leads me to believe I'm on to something :). My test version does not have a card reader and requires students to enter a user name and password. The next step would be to develop a version that uses card readers. So I would hire the help of actual software engineers as my VBA skills are limited. Once the idea is beta tested by some of my teacher friends, it would probably make sense to sell HiPSO to a company that specializes in school administration, and then they can add it as a module to an exsisting program.
Cool idea! Next step - creating a crack for the HiPSO that allows unlimited minutes for the savvy student ;)
As a former teacher, I really could have used something like this! The whole hall pass thing was always a classroom management hassle! -Diane M. Dryja, MAT ELED
A good idea and the uses are many inclduing checking students that are away from the classroom to see if indeed they are authorized to do so.
great idea, would be a good way to monitor the student and make them responsible for their actions. Could even tie it in with their student id's so they would carry it with them all the time.
Great idea! It would be very beneficial to the teacher. It really amounts to one less thing to worry about, and keep track of because it pretty much does the job for you! Good job!
Many urban schools do not have the advance technology needed for HiPSO. However, you have a marvelous idea that will someday change the way schools operate. Thank God I‘m no longer a student!
great idea David You can also use the swipe card as an entry into the school complex .
Way to go! Elementary teachers could use a per numbered set of cards and asign each student a number. Junior and high schools would be a little harder.
I can see this being useful in cracking down on students who request a hall pass in nearly every class, in order to avoid lernin' sumthin'. And fortunately, not enough kids today have read 1984 to realize that Big Brother is a bad thing! Sounds pretty solid to me, especially if it is developed to require minimal impact on a teacher's workload.
This is a great idea. I wonder how the program could be leveraged to identify when certain students might be skipping class. Then the office staff are notified and contact the student's parents.
Tis is a great idea. It will definitely help to manage students by keeping track of their whereabouts.
Much as I hate big brother, needs to be tied into fingerprint id so that cards can't be swapped around, identity can't be swapped etc.... also, so that behavior etc can be tied into scholarship programs and carry forward into adult life.
Schools actually already have programs where you can even watch your student from a remote location via a computer and track your students movements and actions. So I think it could probably be tied into that technology somehow.
That's exactly the kind of technology I would be interested in for developing a more sophisticated version of my program. I have also been looking into the advice given by tjh737 and I really feel like RF technology would be the best final solution. However, one important factor that I need to consider is cost; I want to keep HiPSO affordable. Anyway I'm really excited to see how this contest turns out thanks for the comment!
it's a really good idea for students who leave the room a lot for no reason, but what about students who legitimately have to pee but are out of swipes/time?
I'm glad you asked that question. First, let me just say that when a student has to use the bathroom they always REALLY have to go right now ...it seems like kids in the 13-18 age group all have over active bladders ...especially if they see a friend in the hallway :) Seriously, there is nothing wrong with them acquiring a negative balance on their minutes. Actually it’s very similar to what would happen to me at work if I needed to take a day off but had already used my leave for the year. I would simply have to get my boss's approval and there would be the possibility that taking too much leave could reflect negatively on my next performance review. A student would have to deal with whatever attendance repercussions there might be.
Great idea!I hope this idea will be carried out in schools.
This is exactly the kind of idea that should invented in schools of this day.We need to keep an eye on the kids and monitor their attendance.
i think this is a great idea
Having been a substiute in the Florida area for a while now, I think this is a BRILLIANT idea! I have had students desperately need to go to the bathroom, only to return 20 minutes later or with a fresh, new snack in hand. I have come across many different Hall Pass systems, but yours sounds to me to be the very best of them yet. I hope you win! P.S. Shawn MySpaced me (my husband and I are friends of his....the whole pilot-Marine thing!), asking me to vote...he is spreading the word for ya! Good luck!
Would all "patrolling" teachers have to carry hand-held readers to verify that a student encountered in the hall had swiped out of class? Or would enforcement be strictly after-the-fact? A thought - perhaps students could have to punch a code when they swipe out, corresponding to their intended destination (bathroom, principal's office) and then swipe in at *that* location to ensure they weren't wandering about. Also, combining it with a student id could have the added benefit of monitoring snack runs, if - as some colleges do - snack machines were run on a debit system off of student ids. Heh, this is silly, but when I typed "swipe out," I got the crazy thought that a neat advertising campaign could be a play on "Wipe Out" - but I suppose these young wh…moreippersnappers don't know that song :) Incidentally, I'm a friend of your co-worker Chris. He's getting the word out!
Great Idea!!
Thanks for your support everyone! It looks like I'm going to fall a little short on the votes, but all of your comments have been great. Even though it doesn't look like I'll win, I'm encouraged that this idea has at least a moderate amount of potential. Therefore, I'll look for another avenue to get it off the ground. Thanks again Everyone!
Goood luck Dave!
RFID cards are widely used in the office today. And much easier. How is this different and better? Also, you might want to look at reprocussions from people concerned with privacy. These are their children you are monitoring. That could get messy.