Gates Grants: Galvanic Bracelets that Measure Student Engagement

June 12th, 2012

Ok, 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.

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2 Responses to “Gates Grants: Galvanic Bracelets that Measure Student Engagement”

  1. pessimistic optimist says:
    June 13, 2012 at 12:59 pm

    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.

  2. imark says:
    June 13, 2012 at 3:51 pm

    “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?

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