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There is a new technology called the Facial Action Coding System. It can be used to capture images of a person's face and decide if that person is happy, sad, etc. In the article "Making Mona Lisa Smile" the autor talks about how "A classroom computer could reconginze when a student is becomeing confused or bored. Then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor." This could be valuable in some cases, but in most, it won't be of any help.

The main reason that this new technoogy won't work is that there are multiple people in a class. Different students can have different emotions about a certain topic in school. For example, if a teacher is teaching math, 5 kids might think that what they are learing is really cool and interesting but, 10 other kids might think that math is dull and irritating.

However, there may be times where there is only one kid in a classroom, like explained in paragraph 6. In this case you can change the lesson. When there is 30 to 50 kids in a class, how can you change a whole lesson just because a fraction of the students thinks it's boring? It would be really unfair to the majority of the kids who currently like the lesson plan. You also can't teach some kids one lesson, then the other kids a different lesson. It won't be the same and this can put a lot of stress on the teachers that have to teach and grade the lessons.

There is a way that the FACS could work. Instead of worrying about the a kid being bored of a lesson, teachers should mainly look for kids that are confused and don't understand. This way the teacher could have a one-on-one talk with the confused student(s) to try and catch them up on the lesson. If a student is bored than there is no point of trying to talk to the kid because if a student is bored they aren't going to change. The teachers main worry should be wether or not the student is doing well and understanding the topic.

The FACS is great. It's an advanced piece of technology that scientist can use to learn a lot about humans. However, the main flaw in this system is that it won't work on a group of students all learning the same thing. The FACS can still read an accurate image of everyone's emotions in the classroom but it won't be of any value. If a teacher wants to use this for one student to find out if he or she is confused then it would work perfectly fine. Changing the lesson plan for a group of students, not so fine. Like it says in paragraph 9, if a stuent is unhappy with a lesson, then just make them smile!

Score: 4