Faced with the Coronavirus pandemic, the government has decided to set up pedagogical continuity so that students can follow lessons on the internet. However, children find it much harder to stay alert at home. Thanks to new technologies, teachers will now be able to monitor the seriousness of their students with a camera.
National Education has set up pedagogical continuity so that students can follow courses on the internet. The problem now will be to make sure they are as attentive as in a classroom. Fortunately, there are technologies to monitor students remotely.
When you are quiet at home in front of your computer, you quickly switch to Netflix or Fortnite rather than listening to the teacher. So today, some platforms include cookies to guarantee that students will remain attentive throughout the course.
For this, we rely on the camera on the front of the computer or tablet. We analyze facial expressions to find out when someone yawns in crows or when he is playing with his phone. This then lets the teacher know so that he can call to order.
Is it already in place on the National Education platforms?
Not yet. Because so far, priority has been given to face-to-face teaching with a teacher. But universities are starting to use these technologies for their courses on the Internet. There is even a Parisian business school which creates personalized checks only on the points of the course where we have not been attentive. Suddenly, it forces you to stay focused. Otherwise we will have a bad grade.
It is a vicious system. Shall we warn the students?
Fortunately! It was Jean Michel Blanquer who said "there may not be class, but it's not the holidays either". So if this crisis were to last several months, we should expect to have the same type of coping on the platforms of National Education as among specialists in distance education.