Nooo!! No way!! Even if the technology may be available to do it, I cannot agree with it. The human contact is a MUST in teaching, computers cannot have 'understanding' for instance of a student with special needs, don't have the ability to communicate with them in a social manner, they're basically machines but teachers… let me say good teachers… impart not only of their knowledge to their students but they also CARE about them, doing anything to make them progress and learn. Machines can never do something like that.
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should teacher's be replaced by computers |
Definitely not. Children need to be nurtured in the right manner and that includes much more than just facts and knowledge. There's the emotional well-being, the warmth of a human smile, A thousand smilies or emoticons cannot replace the approving smile of a teacher. Teachers provide guidance on what is socially or morally right or wrong.
And anyway, I believe most of us has a crush on one of the teachers sometime during our growing up years ..... because that teacher displayed concern, care, warmth, friendliness and just old-fashioned love. How can a computer replace that.
no matter how much information computers can impart the most important part of teachin is the human element..teachers are one of the forst role models which we have ...spend prob more time with them than we do with our own families...they help mould our minds..i'm sorry but i prefer a livin breathin human being to teach me rather than a piece of metal....no matter how brilliant it is..
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no matter how much information computers can impart the most important part of teachin is the human element..teachers are one of the forst role models which we have ...spend prob more time with them than we do with our own families...they help mould our minds..i'm sorry but i prefer a livin breathin human being to teach me rather than a piece of metal....no matter how brilliant it is.. |
This is a great topic! I agree with the things that have been said. There's such an element of personality that a human brings to another. Plus, very few things ever go exactly as planned in a classroom, particularly with the younger ones, and a computer would not be able to think on the fly as well as a human, in my opinion. Teachers can easily fill up space by thinking on the fly, and while computers can compute, it wouldn't have a great gathering on spotaneity.
I agree wholeheartedly with what has already been said about the ability to care and nurture. On top of that, one of the best teaching tools is experience. When I teach my girls at work, a lot of what I teach them comes from the things I have experienced in life. A computer wouldn't be able to have that effect.