Can Computers Replace Teachers?

My friend is having a debate on tht topic on the next Monday.. she's on the Teachers side hehe.. so I'm just trying to help her out.. so what do you guys think? should a teacher be replaced by computers?

 

Yes sir!

 

To be honest, yes, and i'm a teacher. Teachers are a dying breed. In a few more years or decades, machines will be teaching real people, or medical methods will just implant them or orally taken to your body.

But aside from teaching, a teacher has another use. which can never be replaced by machines. Its called love. Machines wont love a student, but a teacher can. He can guide the student with a lot of love and care, if you can't understand a lesson, he can explain it to your level. When you have emotional problem, a teacher can listen and gives advice that from a different point of view. A machine is program to give you a fixed response, and if you want something else than the fixed response, it will just say, It cannot be computed. But if you ask a teacher, you will be surprised what he will give, maybe something even your parents can't say.

Also, a teacher is a second-parent, so just think what teachers and parents have a like.

 

I don't think so. Schools aren't only for academic learning, it's where you're supposed to be helped to learn about discipline, work ethic and common sense. I can't imagine machines doing a better job in those three things.

Also the thing about teachers is that they all have a different teaching method which can, or cannot, make it more interesting. Machines would only have one static teaching method. Boring.

 

Maybe when they can make an AI that can nag/abuse the crap outta you with more than the average word database :

 

Spoiler: Objection!

There isn't a vetting process for either and they both usually suck.

But that aside, all I really want is that the youth get access to loving and caring mentors. Obviously, we can't exactly do that yet with artificial intelligence, but whatever benefits the pupil emotionally and academically I'm up for. And right now that's for a fucking vetting process for teachers. Really? You're gonna let this Baba Yaga teach our kids? Yeah, thank you America's educational system.

 

Well, looking at college professors, I can say that a computer program can adequately replace a bag of meat standing at a podium reading excerpts from an organic chemistry book VERBATIM, and that would be the lecture notes for the day. It doesn't matter if the professor knows what they're talking about or not, it's whether they can TEACH what they know about the subject.

As for the professors that actually make their own slides, EXPLAIN the topic in detail, but also in common English, without reading directly off their slides, answer questions about the subject, and encourage discussion mirroring the Socratic method, then I'd say no, computers cannot do that.

 

No.

Kids do not want to go to school again, because no fun is made by computers.

Also, how can a computer answer any question you ask?

 

how would a computer teach?
all it could do is show you things or let you take a test.
it cant get each kid individually and show them exactly what just they need to know
theres also the discipline side to it -
how would it stop a classroom fight?
how would it stop the kids from messing about, talking etc?
computers wont replace teachers unless technology advances massively in some way and even still it probably wont be for a very very long time.
all teachers will have computers helping them though

 

yes i hate teachers

but computers brought us romulation

 

Yes, but not primary/grade/elementary school

 

Well what happens when a student has one of the stupid "What If" questions? XD

 

Does not compute.

 

Well if computers replaced teachers we would just hack it and make it do things it wasn't intended to do.

 

Seph brought us RomUlation, and if he is a computer I'll eat my hat. I don't think they'll ever make computers as pissy as Seph gets.

 

Agreed.

 

I did my last 2 years of High School at home, and from experience I can say Computer can't teach what a Teacher can. I used to find that having a brief 5 minutes chat with a teacher over the phone was a hundred times more useful than reading off a computer for a whole day.

 

Computer can provide information and but to teach require certain skill that computer doesnt have because everyone learn at differ level. Some will get it, some may not and some will never get it. That is why we need teacher.... teacher dont just give us information, teacher make us understand that information.

 

The problem with teachers is that they teach you rather than teach you how to teach yourself. I think self guided learning is an important skill that should be taught earlier on, especially as the internet is such a potent tool.