Teaching Has a Poker Face: Why Teacher Emotion Needs Its Own AI
Opening — Why this matters now AI has become remarkably good at reading emotions—just not the kind that actually matter in classrooms. Most sentiment models are trained on people being honest with their feelings: tweets, movie reviews, reaction videos. Teachers, unfortunately for the models, are professionals. They perform. They regulate. They smile through frustration and project enthusiasm on command. As a result, generic sentiment analysis treats classrooms as emotionally flat—or worse, mislabels them entirely. ...