The actual measurement of the "artifact of writing homework" writing robot is difficult to assemble and ugly

This school season, the "writing robot" in the name of "helping with homework" occupies a place in various hot search lists, causing constant controversy. On February 21, the "writing robot" ordered by the reporter from an online shopping platform at 440 yuan arrived, but the procedure was cumbersome and the writing did not meet the "ghost writing" standard.

The first wave of hot searches: Junior high school children spend 800 yuan to buy "writing robot" online

According to a report by "Qianjiang Evening News" on the 17th, a third-year girl in Harbin's junior high school wrote her homework too fast, causing her mother, Ms. Zhang, to become suspicious. In the end, she accidentally discovered a "writing robot" in her room. After learning about it, Ms. Zhang learned that her daughter spent 800 yuan to buy the "writing robot" online, and in order to arrive as soon as possible, she also paid 30 yuan for express delivery.

According to the report, Ms. Zhang thought it was incredible that "two metal shelves could do her daughter's homework", until she witnessed the robot writing the teacher's copying homework in her daughter's handwriting on paper. Later, it was reported that Ms. Zhang suddenly realized why her daughter's homework was written so quickly, and she smashed the robot in a fit of anger, saying, "This design is too deceitful."

It was this report that pushed the new thing of "writing robot" into the public eye.

Measurement by the reporter: It takes 6 hours to assemble only

Some characters cannot be typed, and the characters are ugly

On the 18th, the reporter ordered a "writing robot" through an online shopping platform. If you cannot find the product by typing "writing robot" in the search box, you can only search for "writing robot". The price ranges from more than 200 yuan to thousands of yuan. Most of the introductory texts mention "drawing", and some even introduce "bionics" and "penalty copying".

The reporter communicated with a number of customer service staff on the grounds of buying homework artifacts for their children, but the replies all mentioned that "it is not recommended for children to use", and many customer service staff mentioned that due to the impact of news events, orders suddenly increased and were being processed urgently Listing in progress. The reporter finally bought a 440 yuan "parts" writing robot. The product introduction said that it can also be controlled by mobile phone Bluetooth.

Arrived on the 21st, the moment the box was opened, the reporter collapsed. About hundreds of parts were packed in various bags and small boxes. After asking the customer service, the other party only sent 3 resource packs, including more than 20 assembled Finally, with the help of a male colleague, the installation was completed after 6 hours of study.

On the 22nd, after half a day of studying the video of the software tutorial, the reporter learned the initial use of the writing robot. Before writing, it is necessary to input the writing content on the relevant software (it can also be imported from relevant documents). The writing robot can distinguish the branch and typesetting format on the relevant software, and the writing speed can be set. According to the default speed of the system, it takes about 3 minutes and 30 seconds to copy the four-sentence seven-character quatrains.

Although this 440 yuan writing robot comes with more than 10 kinds of fonts, the largest font library has only more than 3,000 Chinese characters, and most of them only have 2,500 Chinese characters. If you select only one font and write something like "jasper make up a tree high, ten thousand green silk ribbons hang down", the software will prompt that 2 characters cannot be entered, and there will be no words "makeup" and "lace" after writing. When writing "Looking at Jieshi in the east to see the sea", the word "jie" cannot be written. If all the more than 10 fonts are checked, the entire ancient poem can be typed smoothly, but there is a problem of font inconsistency.

In addition, for some reason, the works completed by the writing robot have continuous strokes between characters, lines and lines, and the characters are crooked and difficult to recognize. Although the manufacturer provides the option of "personal handwriting" in the system, it can only be used by connecting the writing robot to the mobile phone (only Android) through a program, and then inputting the fonts by itself. Therefore, if Ms. Zhang in Harbin sees her daughter's handwriting, her daughter has either entered the relevant content on her mobile phone, or has established a personal font library containing all written Chinese characters.

In the conversation between the reporter and the merchant as a buyer, he told the reporter: "These software were originally developed abroad, and they are better at writing letters." The reporter used the robot to write in English and various artistic fonts, and the effect was really good. in Chinese characters.

In addition, there are many tutorials about drawing in the accompanying video. According to the content of the video, it should be able to complete the production of various basic drawings. But you still need to install a third-party software first.

Parents' hot discussion: Some said they would throw it away, while others expressed their support

The "writing robot" became famous overnight, and parents are particularly concerned.

Yesterday, the reporter solicited the opinions of many parents on "writing robots". Most parents said they would not take the initiative to buy for their children. If the child already has it, many parents choose to smash or throw it away like Ms. Zhang in Harbin, but many parents say: "Since you have it, you might as well disassemble it with your child and learn about a new thing. "

Opponents: learning is hard work, and Chinese people always value handwriting

Ms. Wang is against "writing robots". She said: "I think learning should be persistent. Our traditional culture values ​​handwriting very much. Why should I 'chop off' my child's hands when he still has a chance to improve his handwriting?"

Ms. Sun said: "I feel that this kind of writing robot is too easy to abuse, and it is difficult for parents to supervise, so I don't want it, and I will destroy it if I have it."

Ms. Liu said: "A lot of content in elementary and middle schools is memory, which is an important part of basic knowledge. How can children deepen their memory without copying? Parents always envy children who speak well, but they ignore the hard work behind him."

Ms. Liu said: "This writing robot is for children to be lazy. Adults can't control their own laziness, let alone children?"

Ms. Duan said: "For children, it is better to use writing robots sparingly. But if the technology develops to the 'voice input version of writing robots', it will be convenient for many disabled people, allowing them to write directly with passwords."

Supporters: copying is too tiring, writing robots save time and effort

However, many parents believe that they should first figure out why their children need such a machine. If the child is really unable to do all kinds of copying tasks and has mastered them proficiently, then why not? After all, when we were young, we also did the lazy thing of holding three pens at the same time.

Ms. Guo said: "If the child already has this machine, I think I will study it with the child, assemble it or dismantle it and reassemble it. There is a question of enlightenment. Education is in life!"

Mr. Ma said: "First of all, I don't know the 'writing robot'. I need to know it before making a judgment. In addition, I do have a lot of opinions on the school's many 'mentally retarded' homework, and the 'mechanical memory' that is copied over and over again to deepen the memory." "I have doubts about the method. Confucius said that 'teach students in accordance with their aptitude', each child has different endowments, and the degree of mastery of the learning content is also different. But the homework in the school is for all students, so some children may have a lot of homework that is repeated and memorized , so why can't it be done with a 'writing robot'?"

Mr. Song said: "Many parents say 'burden reduction'. Isn't the writing machine a good burden reduction tool? It can be used to serve children."

Experts say: Moderate copying is necessary, not too much

Liu Peng, principal of Hancheng School of Xi'an Jiaotong University, said: "I think the students in the news reports did not respond negatively when faced with a large amount of writing assignments, and turned to seek help from new technologies, which is a kind of innovative thinking."

Liu Peng believes that if it is not because of playfulness, but because the homework exceeds the physical and psychological capacity, the student turns to the robot for help during the completion process, which reminds us to reflect on the current education. He said: "The reason why the teacher always assigns a lot of copying homework is not entirely the teacher's reason. It is precisely because this is a necessary part of the current education examination system or selection evaluation system. If there is no such part in the examination evaluation system or gradually reduce it. In some cases, I believe that similar duplicate transcriptions will be rapidly and substantially reduced."

But on the other hand, Liu Peng believes that according to the Eisenhaus forgetting curve, memory is repetition. "But repetition is necessary. When the repeated content exceeds the child's ability to bear, and even makes the child lose interest, isn't such repetition unnecessary?"

(Source: Huashang.com)