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Over the years technology has developed in both helpful, and unhelpful ways. The use of the Facial Action Coding System (FACS), could have a massive, but positive, impact on the way students learn. The use of this technology could be extremely valuable.

The author, Nick D' Alto, expresses how people use different facial muscles to show different emotions. The software of this program can depict weither or not a smile is genuine. The different muscles used to produce a real smile, are different than when a person puts on a fake smile (paragraph 7 and 8).

A teacher can spend a whole class period trying to decide if his/ her students, actually understand. Everyone uses the same muscles for a confused expression, it just depends on how the expression is worn. If the FACS were to be installed onto their learning devices, it could depict a confused student faster and alert the teacher. It gets students the help they need, more efficiently.

In paragraph four, D' Alto tells how Dr. Huang observed, "facial expressions are universal." As mentioned before, everyone may look similar when feeling a certain way. It just depends on how much they show the emotion. Yes, your friend could look upset, or behave a certain way, and you'd know instantly. What if it was a stranger? Could you decode how they feel, as easily as for your friend?

Although it can be argued, that it's easy to point out an unhappy person, it actually isn't. That person can wear any expression they want, no matter how fake it is. Use of facial detecting software could help better point out those people. Using this technology in classrooms could be extremely effective, and valuable. It could improve the way students learn, as well as improve grades. The Facial Action Coding System is the technology students, and people in general, could benefit from in their everyday lives.

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