Gates Grants: Galvanic Bracelets that Measure Student Engagement
June 12th, 2012Ok, kids, time for school. Don’t forget your GPS trackers, breakfast sticks, RFID cards and…
Via: Washington Post:
In the ‘you-can’t-make-up-this-stuff’ category, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is spending about $1.1 million to develop a way to physiologically measure how engaged students are by their teachers’ lessons. This involves “galvanic skin response” bracelets that kids would wear so their engagement levels could be measured.
pair that with some mild electric shocks to replace the rulers of old and we should see a wildly successful new/old approach to education in the near future. nothing like discipline to encourage dedicated workers.
“galvanic skin response”?
Sounds like a wearable lie detector to me. Has it really come to this? And of course those who refuse to wear it will be seen as someone with something to hide?