Original title: Zhejiang primary school students are distracted by wearing a headband. The price of one is 3500! The school involved has been stopped
Four seas network news these two days, a topic named "Zhejiang primary school students wear a headband to monitor their wandering mind" is on the hot microblog search list.
According to reports, a brain computer interface head ring named FCOUS one appeared in the primary school classroom in Jinhua, Zhejiang Province. The head ring can detect brain waves, judge whether students concentrate in class and homework, and grade students' concentration. Scores will also be transmitted to the teacher's computer in real time, and will be sent to the parent group like the ranking of test scores.
It is reported that focus one is an educational product launched by brainco, a brain computer interface company. The core principle of the head ring is to connect and interpret the biological signals and human affairs by collecting the biological signs signals in the brain, so as to read the brain through external devices, and then score the concentration.
In fact, as early as July this year, the company held a product class show in Shenzhen, and the summer classes of Capital Normal University and Yale University also cooperated with it.
After entering China, the unit price of this product is 3500 yuan, and the agency mode is adopted. At present, urban agents have been developed in Beijing, Shanghai, Hangzhou and Shenzhen.
The reporter tried on the 'magic' headband. Last weekend, in the 2019 International Digital Education Exhibition held in Hangzhou dream town, brainco brought this head ring to participate in the exhibition.
At the exhibition, brainco set up a game to use the head ring to control the racing model running on the track for everyone to experience. Everyone can control the car with their own concentration after wearing this concentration head ring. The more concentration, the faster the car will run. At the same time, the screen next to the car will show the number of laps the car has run and the average attention index of the experimenter in real time.
To be honest, Xiaobian was still lamenting that now even educational products are so 'black technology'. Unexpectedly, only a few days later, she saw that this head ring was used in primary school students' classroom. It's certainly fun to play games with high-tech products, but is it appropriate to use it to monitor class distractions in real time?
Zhejiang primary school students wearing a headband to monitor their wandering caused a stir on the Internet. For the school to introduce such products into the students' classroom, only a few netizens expressed their support.
The rest of the netizens doubted that it was technical monitoring, which imprisoned the freedom of students.
Some netizens think that students will inevitably be distracted in class, which is not only inhumane, but also has a certain negative impact on children's psychology.
Some netizens also pointed out that this kind of practice of the school has the suspicion of "making money".
After this incident received widespread attention on the Internet, a reporter interviewed a teacher of the school concerned. The teacher's response was also on the microblog hot search list.
The teacher said, 'we have an experimental class using this head ring. The experimental class is called brain computer intelligence class. It has been used for a year. "And revealed that the school's head ring equipment was donated by a rural sage, with a total of 50 sets donated, and the data generated by the head ring will be uploaded to the equipment company.
Speaking of the controversy over the monitoring of students' classes, the teacher said: 'there is no objection from parents and students to the opening of the class, and the students are not ill. '
'in terms of effect, there will be at least one psychological effect, so it's true that attention is more focused than before. 'the teacher said,' the teachers just use this as an auxiliary tool, not for monitoring purposes. '
Latest news: the school involved has suspended the use of the head ring
Speaking of the controversy over wearing a headband to monitor students' class, on the morning of the 31st, the staff of the school's teaching office told reporters: 'as far as the effect is concerned, there will be at least one psychological effect, so the attention is indeed more focused than before. Teachers only use this as an auxiliary tool, not for the purpose of monitoring. '
On the afternoon of December 31, a staff member from the Education Bureau of Jindong District of Jinhua City responded that 50 sets of the head ring were donated and only used once a week. The school does not charge the parents any fees during the use. Schools have suspended the use of the ring because of online disputes.
In addition, this afternoon, in response to relevant reports and comments, brainco also issued a statement on Weibo, saying that the head ring is an instrument that trains students to improve their concentration by using the principle of neural feedback training, not to monitor students' products. We believe that only products that help students have a market, and products that monitor students will not have a market.
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In fact, these Zhejiang primary schools are not the first to "eat crabs" by using high technology to monitor whether students are studying hard.
Some time ago, it was reported by the media that a face recognition system has been installed in a classroom of a university in Nanjing. Not only the campus, library, dormitories and other places have new access to face recognition, but also the classroom has been equipped with a face recognition system. In addition to automatically recognizing the attendance of students, it can also identify whether students are listening carefully, bow their heads several times in the classroom and whether they are playing hand in hand Machine, do you close your eyes and doze off.
At that time, there was a great controversy about face recognition entering the campus. Many netizens believe that such a system is widely used in the campus or suspected of violating privacy. To some extent, it also seriously violates the dignity of students and teachers. It is a distrust of students' autonomous learning ability and teachers' teaching ability. Moreover, it is also pointed out that students are easy to develop 'performing personality' when they study and live in a long-term monitoring environment.
In response to the use of high-tech products in education, the Ministry of education also said: 'we hope that schools will use these technical software very carefully. '