I’m a pretty stable person, but I think this might drive me suicidal.

Kids are kids. Let them play, not monitor them like machines.

Now this is a literal prison, especially mentally.

As a teacher you easily know who is distracted and who is not and teachers do try their best to encourage the distracted students but we don't need AI or headbands to detect that. Every child is an indivıdual and they have their own pace. This is pathetic, poor kids are monitored this way.

AI? Someone should invent headbands for politicians which can detect when they are lying and involve in corrupt activities. Lol

Damm , we here are arguing about privacy and China is like what's that

Imagine being so disconnected from reality as a journalist, that you use happy and cheerful music while presenting the most dystopic and disturbing version of what future schools would look like. No privacy, school and state always know what you do, parents always know what you do... building flesh robots is what they do. Goodbye humanity.

This is straight up dystopian film material.

So basically, I could get fired for yawning in the future

tragedy, those poor kids are not even free in their minds.

This is absolutely disturbing. This technology strips kids of their individuality, expression and takes away from their soul, imagine getting into trouble from your parents because the AI caught you yawning multiple times throughout the day? What if the teachers lesson plan was boring or uninteresting, the kid is made to suffer if they're not interested? What if the student is more artistically inclined and gets more excited when doing art instead of mathematics? This tech forces them not to have a natural interest for certain subjects vs others. The worst part is the fact that the results are published for all parents to see. How does this not cause discrimination? Parents could encourage their children not to hang out or play with kids who are consistently viewed as being distracted. Eventually this leads to a generation of children who grow up to become controlled zombies or worse commit suicide because of the constant surveillance.

I would actually lose my mind if this happens to me. I feel so sorry for those kids that have to go under all this pressure at such a young age. Absolutely unbelievable.

_"there are even surveillance cameras that monitor how often students check their phones or yawn during classes"_ *it looks like students aren't allowed to get bored or to feel sleepy in school*

imagine being that attentive child that got a faulty head band and had thier childhood destroyed

honestly China amazes me with their dedication to innovate and out of the box ideas. even though they seem unethical.

As a teacher in Sichuan in China, I really want to say that most scenarios in this video may related to some kinds of artificial intelligence equipment tests from some tech giants or scientific research teams. I have heard about those tests before and received a few invitations, and obviously they need simulate realistic occasions after all.

This is disgusting. There is more to life than grades.

This is not ok. I would never approve of something like this in my child's school.

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Honestly at this point we're hitting a limitation with the amount the average person can learn well in classrooms with diminishing returns. And it's even harder as jobs require crazier amount of qualifications for a livable wage. Better to just not have children.

Everything about this is unsettling...

imagine being scared to be distracted for a bit in class because your parents and teacher would know edit: mom, I'm famous!

If this was 3 years ago, i wonder how advanced this technology is now.

I think the teachers comment that "the headbands have forced students to become more disciplined" says it all, regardless of whether the devices provide accurate data or not (they probably don't) the placebo effect provides enough impact.

If you’re so obsessed with statistics, just buy a fitness tracker. Don’t turn your kid into one.

Ah you see school is nothing like a prison cell It’s much worse

It seems lots of people here aren’t able to understand that different cultures have varying perspectives on ethics and morals. It’s almost as if they were never taught that.

Children losing their humanity. How sad. It’s like a passive shock collar.

Black Mirror looks like Friends compared to this

This is the most horrible thing one can do to ruin the entire childhood experience. I pray that they give up on this idea. It is as roger ebert once commented, just because everyone has a camera now, doesn’t mean you can record whatever you want.

education is not the learning of fact but the training of the brain to think

"Boosting student's grades" More like boosting student's stress

This is depressing. If they can't think off the topic, ur just killing the child's creativity.

Poor kids. They can't enjoy their childhood like we did. They have little to no autonomy, they get pushed to their limits by their selfish parents and their government.

If this is going to be implemented then there needs to be more awareness of child psychology, you can't just dicipline kids until they pay attention. And the days would need to be shortened. A 6 year old cannot remain completely academically focused for a 7 hour day, and certainly shouldn't be punished for it, neither should a 15 year old. And it leaves no compassion for individuals not perfectly tailored to that system without empathetic and aware caregivers and teachers. It seems like ots being given to a society socially ill equipped to use if healthily.

This is literally turning everybody into human robots..

This is sad. We are humans not robots. Technology is great but we go too far.

Not surprising that WSJ would interview someone, Theodore Santo who seems utterly clueless about brain neurofeedback training, which is used to reduce emotional or physical symptoms in individuals, for self-improvement as well as to enhance and expand mental and cognitive functioning. But of course let's praise the US and how well we educate our children!?!

There will come a time when those things will not be on the outside of your head but on the inside, where you can no longer choose when to take them out.

I don’t like this. They are treated like robots, like people that are made to just work, instead of as individuals.

Chinese governments are the one's who need this not those children.

wait until 2025, all those kids are gonna start having anxiety attacks over the smallest mistakes because of the pressure they felt when this happened

"As long as the government is perceived as working for the benefit of the children, the people will happily endure almost any curtailment of liberty and almost any deprivation." -Adolph Hitler

Poor children, they are being used as lab rats and the adults just stand around and let it happen.

But this seems like prisoners.. This children are Monitored like robots..

I appreciate this technical advancement .but as a school going student what I thinks if I don't like maths and my teacher is observing me at every time so its not good enough . its a kind of pressure . She needs to change her teaching way .

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mom: so how was school? kid: it was great mom: well your headband said you weren’t at school

Bill Gates or Steve Jobs wouldn’t allow this to their kids.

Honestly thats smart because focus is the pinnacle of learning anything. So if you master focus you can divert ur brain to any piece of information willingly.

This scares me. It looks like something straight out of Sci-Fi movie where the world is some prison, my mom went to china and talked to her friends kids, the education system is like a robot manufacturing factory, its turning kids into robots who don't ask questions, but follow super specific rules, not little kids, but students from top universities

In my head I'd be like: "just concentrate, let's turn this light red, I can do this" And probably wouldn't notice the teacher anymore

Basically, they are making robots.

She said at 5:26 ... That is not a school, it's a lab

A lot depends on how the technology is used. If there is punishment for distraction, then that is the nightmare part. Better to analyze why the child is distracted and any number of things can be done to resolve that. Positive motivation, creating a willingness to want to learn something, creating the interest, not because you are forced to but because its something a child really wants to learn has to be figured out. A good teacher has to find that key to bring in that motivation, so they enjoy the task rather than being miserable doing it. Then I think the rest would come naturally. What goes for a child, often goes for an adult. How motivated are we to pursue the things we don't like doing, often because of earlier failures? Take bad experiences out of the equation. I see this as another tool that can potentially help but its not the end solution. There is a reason why we're all different. Kahn Academy discovered among its students that they learn at different paces. Some start out fast while others slow but some of the slow ones end up surpassing the initial fast starters. As in any invention, it can be used for good or evil. I wish for instance I had the internet when I was a kid. I could miss a point in class because of my hearing, someone else yacking, miss a point because I didn't get enough sleep or slightly sick, miss a point because my imagination over what the teacher said went into hyper-drive, miss a point because I didn't eat breakfast or simply miss a point because I wasn't able to relate to the information the teacher said. If I could re-run a lecture, yes I definitely would have a better chance at understanding concepts explained. I remember my mom first viewing the internet as something evil, a place with hackers and other bad people. That's a reality but the positives in my estimation outweigh the negatives. Once she well acquainted with the internet, any time her internet was down was a catastrophe for her. This is the early stages of this experiment but like every tool, its got to be used the right way, not abusively but geared to focus on a positive outcome. Ultimately, good or bad, technology will continue to evolve and its not going away.

Dad: Son you are grounded for 4 weeks Son: why dad Dad: you weren’t paying attention in class for 20seconds straight

Dear Parents, your childs mental health is more important than their grades. EDIT: I thought comments section is for opinions and I thought everybody respected that.. but sadly no : )

Better grades but it causes anxiety and depression

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This is like a mental prison for students. As a student, I wouldn’t want this kind of sophisticated technology to analyze our every move. Edit: Yes, it would help kids to have an attentive skill but in my opinion this technology restricts the imagination and creativity of kids. Take away their freedom to be imaginative and creative at an early age then all the kids will know for their entire lives is to follow rules.

This is making me uncomfortable, your teacher is legit reading your brain waves.

I would love a follow up report. How did these students progress compared to same age peers?

It may help them to get grades but will not help them to do something in life and for humanity.

i dont see why noone thinks this is so wrong

Why’s the teacher not wearing 1 too?

What about the TEACHER? if many children aren't focusing on a lesson or with a certain teacher is the teacher retrained?

Google doesn't sound scary anymore.

Artificial intelligence is good, but using it in this way isn’t.

“ it wasn’t hard to get parental consent “ yes because they don’t have a choice. If they decline it will hurt their social credit score

These kids go to school, not to a pressure cooker.

Why isn’t the teacher wearing one too?

Por favor , the kids like that don't need any privacy

If they have the students wear them then the teachers should be wearing them too to be fair.

This sounds like a Black Mirror episode

This is messed up and beyond controlling, these children should not have this amount of pressure on them

what happens if there a dyslexic I'm also one and my brain works differently and I think that dyslexic people will get a lower score

This report is like if you take an example of a school in Utah where 16yo children go to prison for absenting school because they have to work, or get physically punished, and you say that the whole country (or the whole State of Utah) works like that. It's an experimental program in a few schools and with parental acceptance that has been cancelled the same year (2019) after the controversy that it generated.

They should be using AI to help students learn not police them.

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this is how they calculate social credits!

2:51- that's not okay. This whole thing is not okay, but being able to see every student's score is definitely not okay.

"this will help kids get better grades" So they prefer grades over heart

This is terrible, I can’t imagine the stress levels on those kids

It seems like a prison but it looks safe to walk on the streets

That one student who didn't pay attention probably got whacked, but I think that this is actually good, given that I hate it when no one's paying attention and they're in my team.

Isn’t school hard enough, imagine being forced to concentrate like I can’t

I wouldn't be surprised if they added AI's inside the toilets to see if they're actually using the bathroom.

1:51 wrong translation, the correct one is "good morning students" (同学们早上好)(Tong Xue Men Zao Shang Hao)

Usually it’s technology forms culture. Now it’s culture dictates technology

Freedom and privacy Chinese Govt. : *We don't do that here*

yea they're gonna need a lot of mental healthcare in the future

I wonder if the parents would willingly wear something like that at their own job.

It's interesting and like everything, has pros and cons. The pros being that this could help students become more engaged in their education and have their wellbeing tracked to ensure good health. The cons are the possibility of companies and/or the government using these innocent children as a data farm and the additional pressures of trying to satisfy and AI. It's a very thin and dangerous line.

kids should have creativity. schools are killing it. and with this, it turns humans into robots without emotions lol kids are humans, not robots or some statistic climber 😶

Poor kids they're just becoming programmed into robots ...the whole world is following behind

"I think my headband isn't working"- one student

While this helpful to a degree Teachers want to see what areas of the brain are activated during a respective lesson. It would provide meaningful data for lesson planning as well as how the students learn conceptually. Consider including a neuroscientist on a collaborative team to process the data. If a student has a learning disability and struggles academically, that data would provide specificity with regards to what is happening with the acquisition of a particular skill or concept. This can also be effective with cooperative learning. I'm sure this would be wonderful for parents as well.

This is just too much, there's no privacy and personal space

Teacher: Why is the light red all the time? You: what?

I see lot of health concerns here (especially wearing this hours together around the head)