Wednesday, December 13, 2017

Kristin Houser — Why robots could replace teachers as soon as 2027


Many professions, including education and health care, will become increasingly automated. This won't eliminate the need for humans, however, since the social element is also a vital factor in many fields, especially education, which involves socialization.

The problem inherent in this article is difficulty thinking outside the box, in this case the traditional classroom. That model is obsolescent, and technology will soon make it obsolete. Then we will look back on it and wonder why it held on for so long in spite of the obvious limitations in addressing individualization through personalization.

Individualization and socialization need to be balanced in order to develop well-rounded people that have an optimal opportunity to develop and express their full potential as individuals, group participants ("team-players"), citizens, and authentic human beings.

World Economic Forum
Why robots could replace teachers as soon as 2027
Kristin Houser | Senior Editor at Futurism

2 comments:

Joe said...

If robots end up being our teachers, why bother with humans at all? Just have the robots teach other robots.

Tom Hickey said...

If robots end up being our teachers, why bother with humans at all? Just have the robots teach other robots.

That's the point. Let robots do all they can and what's left is what only humans can do. If there is nothing left, then everyone has the opportunity for leisure, freely choosing how they spend their time.

That is not in the foreseeable offing though.

The point is that a lot of eduction can be automated. So can medical diagnosis and treatment.

This frees up humans for other things that have not yet been automated.

But the ideal situation is that all "work" is performed by non-human means so that humans are free to play. Some humans will chose to play creatively rather than just around, and other will choose to sit around and enjoy digital content.

Actually, labor-saving devices have already made distributed leisure much more available than it has ever been historically. How to most people spend most of their leisure time? You probably guessed it‚ watching TV.