Robot teachers
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If you think of the jobs robots could never do, you would probably put doctors and teachers at the top of the list. It's easy to imagine robot cleaners and factory workers, but some jobs need human connection and creativity. But are we underestimating what robots can do? In some cases, they already perform better than doctors at diagnosing illness. Also, some patients might feel more comfortable sharing personal information with a machine than a person. Could there be a place for robots in education after all?
British education expert Anthony Seldon thinks so. And he even has a date for the robot takeover of the classroom: 2027. He predicts robots will do the main job of transferring information and teachers will be like assistants. Intelligent robots will read students' faces, movements and maybe even brain signals. Then they will adapt the information to each student. It's not a popular opinion and it's unlikely robots will ever have empathy and the ability to really connect with humans like another human can.
One thing is certain, though. A robot teacher is better than no teacher at all. In some parts of the world, there aren't enough teachers and 9–16 per cent of children under the age of 14 don't go to school. That problem could be partly solved by robots because they can teach anywhere and won't get stressed, or tired, or move somewhere for an easier, higher-paid job.
Those negative aspects of teaching are something everyone agrees on. Teachers all over the world are leaving because it is a difficult job and they feel overworked. Perhaps the question is not 'Will robots replace teachers?' but 'How can robots help teachers?' Office workers can use software to do things like organise and answer emails, arrange meetings and update calendars. Teachers waste a lot of time doing non-teaching work, including more than 11 hours a week marking homework. If robots could cut the time teachers spend marking homework and writing reports, teachers would have more time and energy for the parts of the job humans do best.
On the one hand, I think AI or robots, whatever you want to call them, shoud be used to automate teacher's routine tasks and help them with reports, cheking homeworkm auditing and reviewing teaching plans.
On the other hand, I see some risks, such as reports written by AI for AI, removal of creative part from homework, and so on.
I think we have to find a balanve between machine and human approach. We should use AI's strengths to support human weaknesses, but we shouldn't use AI if there is no real reason for it
Would you like to have a robot as a teacher?
Yes, I would like to have a robot as a teacher. I think it would be a different experience from my life, because I have always had a human being as a teacher. I am a teacher and I agree with the text: teachers will be replaced by robots, unfortunately.
Would you like to have a robot as a teacher?
In my opinion, robots can be used as part of teaching techniques. They can explain lessons or show students how something works. However, when I need to ask questions or discuss something, I prefer speaking with a human teacher. Interacting with a person is very important because human teachers can show empathy and provide personal support, which robots cannot do
In my opinion , no. I would not like to have a robot as a teacher because robots cannot understand student’s feelings like human teachers do. Human teachers can give emotional support and encouragement when students need it.
I agree with you . From my perspective, I strongly disagree with replacing human teachers with robots.This is because a robot teachers cannot understand our feelings and emotions the way human teachers do.Other than that,it could cause misunderstandings and communication issues in real life.
Thank the author for sharing your viewpoints of robot's important roles now. In my view of point, In the AI era, Robot is developed fastly and play role an important in every aspect of our life. For example, my college is using AI and robot to transfer information to students, support students to look into the new knowledges that the lecturers don't enough time to teach them. Although it gives us much benefits and convenience, we don't misuse them and need to be used for proper purpose.
In my opinion, I disagree to have a robot as teacher. This is because I believe that student and teacher connection is more important because teacher can interpret their student more detail if they understand the topic and also can use another alternative to make sure their student understand .
Would you like to have a robot as a teacher?
No, I wouldn't. This is because robot doesn't have much empathy to students. If they don't have empathy, they will pester students to do more homework and it will make the students exhausted. Other than that, if we have a robot as a teacher, we will be so nervous when meeting a real life teacher because we already get used to a robot and will have a lot of misunderstanding and communication issue with our teachers.
in my opinion, i would love to have robot as a teacher. It is because there is so many advantage that we can take such as the robot could be an assistant to helping our teaching. besides that the robot also can help to mark homework, which would lessen the burden that carried by the teachers.