Face recognition in the classroom is more than an overkill

After students enter the classroom, they automatically recognize their personal information, the system automatically signs in and signs out, and monitors students' attendance in class throughout the entire process. Even your actions such as being in a daze, dozing off, and playing with your mobile phone can be recognized. The China Pharmaceutical University in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, has installed a face recognition system to "test the water" in some classrooms, skipping classes and "answering for students" may become history.

Face recognition in the classroom is nothing more than to strengthen daily attendance and classroom discipline management. It is understood that the face recognition system, in addition to automatically identifying students' attendance, can also realize full monitoring of students' classroom listening. Whether students listen to the lecture carefully, whether they raise their heads and lower their heads several times in class, how long they have raised their heads, whether they are playing mobile phones with their heads lowered, and whether they are dozing off with their eyes closed, are all the "demonstrative eyes" of face recognition.

Although face recognition is very smart and can capture students’ violations of regulations and disciplines during class, and according to reports, the school has previously consulted with the public security department and the legal department. Since the classroom is a public place, there is no “invasion of privacy”. statement. But the author believes that it is obviously overkill to allow students to study under the monitoring of face recognition. From a reasonable point of view, no one wants to monitor high-pressure behavior. Moreover, students are not learning machines.

In 2017, a live broadcast of classrooms from schools across the country appeared on a network platform called "Water Drop Live", which caused heated public opinion. Experts believe that the classroom should be a relatively closed space. Teachers and students can Expressing their thoughts, placing teachers and students under surveillance, is suspected of infringing on privacy. The face recognition system obviously has the same effect as the web live broadcast platform, and it also fails to take into account the rights of teachers and students.

Earlier, some media pointed out that the increasingly popular technology of face recognition and analysis of students’ class status has caused many students, parents and experts to deeply worry: “Is it campus informatization or campus prisonization?” “Whether data collection is infringing "Student privacy", "Is facial expression recognition analysis really reliable?" "Children must learn acting at a young age"... It can be seen that even if face recognition enters the classroom with a good original intention, it is clear that people lack a sense of identity. .

What's more, it's not just students' business to make students more obey the classroom discipline. As some netizens said, “Some teachers have poor teaching quality and useless curriculum settings. It is a waste of time to attend classes. Only by improving the quality of teaching can students come to class, not for the sake of class.” As the saying goes, classroom teaching depends on order. Teacher Yu works with the students. The face recognition system puts teachers and students under surveillance, which is clearly putting the cart before the horse.

In addition, the introduction of the face recognition system into the classroom will inevitably increase teaching costs. No matter what channel the money is obtained from, it will not be used on the "knife" after all. Just as some media commented on this kind of phenomenon, "the drive of capital, the hype of the concept of Internet + education, and the rapid success of schools, make the road of AI + education more and more biased." It can be said that such a method obviously deviates from the original intention of modern education, and it is not worthwhile to try and promote. (Yang Yulong)

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