High School in China Installs Facial Recognition Cameras To Monitor Students' Attentiveness (theepochtimes.com)

A high school in Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province located on the eastern coast of China, has employed facial recognition technology to monitor students' attentiveness in class, local media reports. From the report: At Hangzhou Number 11 High School, three cameras at the front of the classroom scan students' faces every 30 seconds, analyzing their facial expressions to detect their mood, according to a May 16 report in the state-run newspaper The Paper. The different moods -- surprised, sad, antipathy, angry, happy, afraid, neutral -- are recorded and averaged during each class. A display screen, only visible to the teacher, shows the data in real-time. A certain value is determined as a student not paying enough attention. A video shot by Zhejiang Daily Press revealed that the system -- coined the "smart classroom behavior management system" by the school -- also analyzes students' actions, categorized into: reading, listening, writing, standing up, raising hands, and leaning on the desk.

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If we had this in my generation

[Anonymous Coward]

I would have ended-up as a drop-out instead of a Ph.D.

Re: Mechanisms of propaganda.

[Anonymous Coward]

In the old days the teacher kept an eye on his students... and a whack on the wrist with a ruler was the first warning. These days everyone is SJW'd and their kids are assholes.

Upgrades

[mentil]

the system also analyzes students' actions, categorized into: reading, listening, writing, standing up, raising hands, and leaning on the desk.

Soon to come: doodling, fomenting rebellion, gossiping, sleeping, reading non-class materials, and pranking.

Re:Upgrades

[bursch-X]

Even sooner to come: wrongthink, doubting the propaganda, not being a good citizen, dissentient thinking

Re: Mechanisms of masturbation.

[Anonymous Coward]

You've clearly never been to China.

Here, I can stereotype too. All Americans are fat, lazy and materialistic.

Re:What happened to good old-fashioned test scores

[AmiMoJo]

Or maybe it's just a tool to assist the teacher when they have to deal with a large class of kids. I'm not saying it isn't Orwellian, merely that perhaps it's not designed to force the kids to pay attention but rather to help the teacher notice where they need to focus their attention. Managing 30 kids who have to do boring work is hard.

I actually know some Chinese kids, and I've seen their school... It wasn't some kind of Party Loyalty factory, it was just a normal school full of normal kids but with more of a focus on rote learning than we have in the west.