The Hikvision Smart Classroom Behavior Management System

Since we are on Chinese education, the topic of academic performance is likely to come up and the oft-repeated claim that China students are better than US ones.

For a contrary view from a Professor at China's top business school see Bloomberg's China's Top Economic Risk? Education article, key quotes:

headline-grabbing studies showing China's prowess on standardized tests evaluated only kids in rich and unrepresentative areas. When its broader population was included, China's ranking dropped across all subject areas.

According to the 2010 census, less than 9 percent of Chinese had attended school beyond the secondary level. More than 65 percent had gone no further than junior high. From 2008 to 2016, China's total number of graduate students actually decreased by 1 percent. Outside the richest areas, much of China's population lacks even the basic skills required in a high-income economy.

China is famous for requiring rote memorization of its students. But schools are also increasing classwork on communist ideology, Confucian thought and even Traditional Chinese Medicine. 

I wonder how well this tech would function when applied to a variety of people with different facial features than what a typical Chinese person possesses. I remember a facial recognition company a while ago telling us in a training class that they had difficulty training their system to differentiate different asian facial features as opposed to non-asian facial features. I wonder if these guys would face similar issue.

Either way im glad i didnt grow up in an age of video surveillance. How stressful I imagine that would be to be constantly evaluated.

The image shows all the asian kids being serious and the caucasion kid is goofing off. i am deeply offended by that.... J/K, i think its hilarious.

Back on topic, i dont get excited about all this bleeding edge technology anymore. Normally it simply doesn't work anywhere close to what customers expect. Nonetheless, someone or some company has to start somewhere with it.

Nonetheless, someone or some company has to start somewhere with it.

 When you have it, use it.

Thankfully GDPR will prevent this to happen in European schools :)

ASIS should partner with Hikvision and deploy this inside their GSX learning sessions.

Update:

The system also displays a list of students who are not focused:

And we verified the other UI segment ranks students by how focused the system believes they are.

Chinese video clip where this is from here.

forget face rec, China goes direct to the source

A headband that claims to monitor children’s brainwaves in order to improve their focus is available for purchase in China, aimed at “Tiger” mothers and fathers who’ll do everything to help their children succeed. But many of its target customers are already creeped out.

The Focus1, or Fu Si, headband, from US-based startup BrainCo, claims it can measure how closely students are paying attention through electrodes that detect electrical activity in kids’ brains and send the data to teachers’ computers or to a mobile app. A light on the headband that gleams red, yellow or blue, also purports to signal how engaged a child is with the task at hand—with red being the highest level of attention.