Original title: 'monitoring head ring' enterprise response dispute: products to improve focus rather than monitoring
4hw.org.cn on October 31, in response to the incident of "a primary school in Jinhua, Zhejiang Province, wearing a headband to detect the concentration of students", the brain technology that developed the product issued a statement saying that the product is a concentration training system, not for monitoring, which can help teachers improve their teaching programs. Nor will the team develop products to monitor student focus.
Recently, a brain computer interface head ring called "Fu Si head ring" appeared in a primary school classroom in Jinhua, Zhejiang Province, causing social controversy.
It is reported that the product can detect the brain waves of the wearer, track the attention of the learners in real time, score them, and then send them to the teachers. Many people call it "tight hoop curse", which is a modern version of "head hanging beam, cone and stab", and worry about whether it will make students have rebellious psychology.
In this regard, strong brain technology replied in the statement that brain computer interface technology is a new technology that will not be easily understood. The 'rating' mentioned in the report is the average concentration value of the class, not the concentration value of each student guessed by netizens. The focus report formed by the integration of this data also has no function to send to parents. In addition, the head ring does not need to be worn for a long time and can be trained once a week.
The statement also mentioned the original intention of the product: in the traditional classroom, teachers can't get students' feedback, which easily makes students lose interest. But now teachers can adjust the teaching plan in real time according to the focus report, and develop more courses that interest students.
In fact, it is not the first time that the product has appeared in public. In a shopping website, the same product has been sold for a long time, in which the positive comments of parents occupy the majority.
Zhou Yueliang, Dean of the Institute of intelligent education of Zhejiang Normal University, said that the discussion on this issue is inevitable in the process of science and technology entering the campus. If the collected data do not damage the physical and mental health of students, do not violate the privacy of students and can be strictly controlled in the improvement of classroom teaching, it can not be urgently denied, it should be allowed to explore.
'there will be more and more attempts to use big data to judge learning conditions and improve teaching programs, which is a trend. Zhou Yueliang said that at present, science and technology are still in the primary stage of entering the campus. He hoped that more schools and enterprises could carry out beneficial exploration while protecting the privacy of students.
In response to the controversy caused by "Fu Si tou Huan", the reporter called the Education Bureau of Jindong District of Jinhua city many times, but as of the time of publication, no response had been received. (end)