"Writing robot" quietly popular: parents Tucao education concerns
With the approaching of the new semester, many primary and middle school students began to make up their homework crazily. A black technology product, called "writing robot", was quietly popular on the Internet. It was said that it could imitate children's handwriting to help with homework.
Recently, Ms. Zhang of Harbin found that the daughter of junior three ordered a "writing robot" with New Year's money. It can copy texts and new words not only by imitating children's handwriting, but also by drawing and copying newspapers. Her daughter's Chinese homework is written by the robot. In her anger, she broke the "robot" and scolded her daughter.
Unexpectedly, after Qian Baoweixin's public number "Shengxuebao" reported this "black technology", many parents did not resent this "black technology", but thought: "How good the design is!" He was quite envious of it: "Why didn't I have such a good thing when I was a child?" Even in the message area, "seek links".
"Copy homework after class should be less, not more." Liu Fajian, A fourth-grade Chinese teacher at Anji Road Experimental School, said: "Parents are loud about robots, in essence, they are dissatisfied with the large amount of copying homework during the holidays."
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During the winter vacation, the teacher left homework such as copying texts, writing texts, math papers, memorizing words and so on. Because travel and holidays delayed her homework, Ms. Zhang asked her daughter to make up all winter vacation homework before February 24. Unexpectedly, it took her daughter two days to complete her copying homework, and her handwriting was neat. There were no errors or corrections.
But when she was cleaning up her daughter's room, Ms. Zhang unexpectedly found a "transcription artifact": a box with "writing robot" was packed with two metal shelves, and the instructions said that "you can copy all kinds of handwriting".
Originally, my daughter used New Year's money to buy a "writing robot" online, and spent more than 800 yuan. In order to get the goods as soon as possible, a delivery fee of more than 30 yuan was added.
How is it possible for two metal shelves to do homework for their daughters? Ms. Zhang was amazed until she witnessed the robot writing down the text and copying homework left by the teacher in her daughter's handwriting on the paper. "I said how did you write your Chinese homework so fast? You used this as a"writer". It can do your homework for you. Can you take the exam for you? Ms. Zhang smashed the robot in a fit of pique. "This design is too pitiful."
The Internet is really selling well.
Is there such a magical robot? Qian Bao reporter was curious and went to the Internet to search for it. He was shocked by a variety of "writing robots". He typed "writing robots" in the search bar and jumped out of dozens of results. Prices range from 400 yuan to 1200 yuan, with the words "all metal", "laser sculpture" and "hand-like writing". One of the best-selling "writing robots" is priced as high as 1099 yuan, with sales approaching 200 units a month.
According to the customer service of online stores, "writing robot" is actually a set of rod-shaped electronic metal kits. It only needs to assemble and download software to allow the robot to recognize the user's handwriting, import the text content to be written, and place a pen at the front end. Pen, neutral pen or pencil can be placed. It can imitate the user's handwriting to write the specified content on paper, and the writing speed is faster. About 40 words per minute, even faster.
Knowledgeable people believe that although the "writing robot" can imitate the user's handwriting, it is limited to the copying of low-demand, repetitive types of writing. After all, in the way of writing, robots are different from people. Robots are more standardized in word spacing, font size and so on. When people write with pens, these are difficult to achieve complete consistency. Teachers can still distinguish them if they observe carefully.
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Qian Bao reporters simply sorted out the background message of "Shengxuebao". There are roughly three kinds of parents who want to buy "writing robot" for their children:
First, the burden of schooling is too heavy for distressed children.
Parent: "During the winter vacation, the teacher assigned too many copies of homework. Not only in Chinese and English, but also in mathematics and computer science. The children do their homework around 11 o'clock every night. It's great to have robots to write for them.
The second is negative attitude towards copying assignments.
Parents: "Copying homework ten times and twenty times is a low-quality and meaningless mechanical homework. It not only takes up children's time, but also does not help children's learning. It's better to find a'writer'to deal with things."
Third, there are doubts about the way teachers correct their winter vacation homework.
Parents: "The amount of homework in winter vacation is relatively large, so some teachers will not seriously correct the homework, but the children can not get feedback when they finish their homework conscientiously, so they simply use the"writers"as their substitute.
Educators have seen some problems in school education through this "black technology". Zhang Feng, deputy director of the teaching and Research Department of Zhejiang Provincial Department of Education, forwarded the tweet and said: "This is boring work. When children's learning should be more challenging to high-level cognitive problems, there are a lot of low-level repetitive so-called learning tasks, which are really unnecessary."
"Boredom" jobs do exist in large numbers.
So, is this kind of "boring homework" a common phenomenon in primary and secondary schools in Hangzhou? Qian Bao interviewed 6 senior Chinese teachers in primary and secondary schools at random. The results showed that there was a large amount of copying homework.
A junior high school teacher recalled.