Pronunciation ChallengeHow China Is Using Artificial-Intelligence In Classrooms | WSJ

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Last week of March already! What kind of apps can help you track your attention span? Only this video tells you how crazy it would be like in real life. There is a pop quiz for you in this episode! Just trying out something new here. Let me know what you think!

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This fifth grader, whom we caught dozing off in class, told us his parents punish him for low attention scores and that kind of data adds a new kind of pressure for students.

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Key Vocabulary

1. dozing offstart to sleep, especially during the day.

dozing off

[doʊz](phr.)start to sleep, especially during the day.

take a nap

[næp](n.)a short sleep, especially during the day

burn the midnight oil

[ˈmɪd.naɪt](idiom.)to stay up all night

2. punishto cause someone who has done something wrong or committed a crime to suffer, by hurting them, forcing them to pay money, sending them to prison, etc.

punish

[ˈpʌn.ɪʃ](v.)to cause someone who has done something wrong or committed a crime to suffer, by hurting them, forcing them to pay money, sending them to prison, etc.

physical punishment

[ˊfizikl, ˊpʌniʃmәnt ](n.)the physical punishment of people, especially of children, by hitting them

corporal punishment

[ˌkɔːr.pɚ.əl, ˈpʌn.ɪʃ.mənt](n.)the physical punishment of people, especially of children, by hitting them

3. datainformation, especially facts or numbers, collected to be examined and considered and used to help decision-making, or information in an electronic form that can be stored and used by a computer

data

[ˈdeɪ.t̬ə](n.)information, especially facts or numbers, collected to be examined and considered and used to help decision-making, or information in an electronic form that can be stored and used by a computer

4. pressurea difficult situation that makes you feel worried or unhappy

pressure

[ˈpreʃ.ɚ](n.)a difficult situation that makes you feel worried or unhappy

peer pressure

[pɪr](n.)the strong influence of a group, especially of children, on members of that group to behave as everyone else does

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Howard Lin6 years ago

Day 628
This fifth grader, whom we caught dozing off in class, told us his parents punish him for low attention scores and that kind of data adds a new kind of pressure for students.