It’s needless to say that we are living in a day and age where technology is evolving exponentially. Everywhere you go, everything you do, and most significantly, in the classroom. Children are becoming privy and more technologically sound with the resources that are presented to them and the growth and efficiency of these resources are not slowing down by any means.
However, America is in the lower tier of acquiring and utilizing new technology so, obviously, we are getting blown out by our respective countries such as China and Japan. In the future, children will be doing things technologically more differently than us as college students could ever imagine. As a matter of fact, it’s pretty assuring to say that kids are already a leap ahead of us.
A younger cousin of mine in middle school doesn’t carry his backpack around and hasn’t used a book in over a year. In his first day of English class as a 6th grader, the teacher passed out Laptops and the students took their entire test, wrote all their papers, and even scheduled PTA’s (Parent-Teacher Conferences) by video. So as you see (and this is being preached by Professor Sistrunk in MIS), the need for paper and physical contact in communication is becoming more and more needless in classes. But wait, it gets even scarier. In Japan, classes are already being taught by robots, literally! Don’t believe me? Take a look here
I think that the possibilities as far as technology for our kids go is absolutely wonderful. It is even difficult for me to even imagine what the classroom would be like for my child once they enter college. I actually like that robots are coming into the realm of teaching. Quite frankly if a robot is teaching the class, then you don't and will not have to deal with the teachers personality or attitude. It would be amazing to have a perfectly nice and informative teacher at your disposal. I can imagine future students laughing at us and our use of book bags and even mere books!
ReplyDeleteWow, this is really going to revolutionize the educational environment. I wonder what will happen to the industry of teachers and publishing companies in the future. Also a study should be conducted when this technology becomes more prevalent to discover if there is a disparity in the effectiveness of a human verses a robot teacher.
ReplyDeleteThis is quite an interesting concept, it could certainly prove to be a useful and innovative tool that boosts us into the upcoming years. But to play the devils advocate, it has a number of issues that one might perceive as a social development issue of sorts. Part of the teachers job with children, especially with young ones, is to groom and build their social skills. One could argue that a child lacking that experience may encounter social developmental issues.
ReplyDeleteAs my colleague above stated, this advancement allows for lack of social skills to arise. Or maybe so, too much trust on younger students to follow rules accordingly although they are aware the teacher is a robot. Is it really worth it to financially support the development of an advancement such as this at one's school after considering the maintenance of these "robots", the "genius" required to answer the questions of children no matter how off-putting, and the amount of new employment to control the various factors of just one robot.
ReplyDeleteI dont know about a robot teacher, I feel like teachers, well most teachers, teach you so much more than what is just in the textbook. Some teachers genuinely look out for you and help you outside the classroom as well. Whether it be with connections to get an internship or recommendations to get into Grad. School.
ReplyDeleteHesitation comes to mind when I see the robot teaching the class. I don't feel that students would be able to appreciate or be motivated to learn by robot. Nonetheless I do agree with Zimbe Kimbugwe for his truth of how the next generation are getting to close to surpassing you and I on our knowledge towards technology.
ReplyDeleteThis blog in incredibly interesting, although I have always been against the use of too much technology in the classroom becuase I feel as though it does not allow students to really appreciate the processes that they are being taught. In my younger days up until college really teachers were hesitant to allow us to even use calculators. Although I feel like we will be looking much like some of our parents in reference to how they operate with modern technology. Definitely something to keep an eye on.
ReplyDeleteTechnology is moving into a new age. The robot teacher is phenomenal in showing just how advanced our society is but more so the new direction our generation and all those following is moving. It is important to recognize the legal and insurance issues that may come with the introduction of a machine professor in the classroom.
ReplyDeleteThe robot teacher concept is pretty amazing. However,I am concerned about the development of the children who may think that their boss might be a robot also, which would not be the case.
ReplyDeletethe fact that we have the technology today is amazing. however i do believe that robots could not replace a human being in the class room.
ReplyDeleteThe fact that America believes itself to be the supreme power and leader in all things, ethnocentric Americans usually don't take too kindly to the notion that they are not number one at something. I'm glad Zimbe wrote this post, because it is definitely the truth that Americans are behind when it comes to technological advances. However the thing that keeps up appearing number one is our Ambition and military strength.
ReplyDeleteToday is an era of technologally meaning that even though we are kind of young...children in highschool and even middle school are using the same websites and things we are. They are own twitter MATURING at a faster rate than ever because information is mostly acessible to all on there. They are more focused on these social networks and i believe it's causing them to slack a bit in school
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