A friend's 12 year-old daughter brought "Baby Jackson"
home for the weekend. Baby Jackson is a technological doll, a project of
every student in "Home and Consumer Science" class in seventh grade.
(This used to be an assignment for high-schoolers.) There
are boy and girl dolls, white, Asian, Black and Hispanic dolls. Baby
Jackson has many position and pressure sensors, coos, cries to be fed,
needs burped, has sensors signaling a need for a diaper
change and the student's response to signals and circumstances are
computerized and logged. Every student, girls and boys, has the
assignment of having Baby Jackson for one weekend during the course
and their grade depends on their performance with the doll's demands.
(This girl did not go out the weekend and was up 6 times with the doll
Saturday night.)
The purpose of this exercise was not clarified.
Baby Jackson at rest
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