This French school is using facial recognition to find out when students aren’t paying attention

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This French school is using facial recognition to find out when students aren’t paying attention
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A business school in Paris will soon begin using artificial intelligence and facial analysis to determine whether students are paying attention in class. The software, called Nestor, will be used two online classes at the ESG business school beginning in September. LCA Learning, the company that created Nestor, presented the technology at an event at the United Nations in New York last week.

The idea, according to LCA founder Marcel Saucet, is to use the data that Nestor collects to improve the performance of both students and professors. The software uses students’ webcams to analyze eye movements and facial expressions and determine whether students are paying attention to a video lecture. It then formulates quizzes based on the content covered during moments of inattentiveness. Professors would also be able to identify moments when students’ attention waned, which could help to improve their teaching, Saucet says.
 
If we had this in our department meetings..... I'd be pretty screwed! 😀😀

Surely grades tell you if students are paying attention though?
 
No human being pays attention 100% of the time. We're not robots.

If this is a tool to help lecturers identify the things in their lectures that most cause attention to wane, then fine. But the existence of those quizzes tells me it's more about punishing students for being human, which is counterproductive and stupid.
 
My tip to other teachers is this: TALK LOUDLY. WAVE YOUR ARMS. SLAM YOUR POINTING STICK AT THE BOARD. Nobody dozes off in my classes, unless they are wearing ear muffs.
 
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