{"id":14,"date":"2013-03-31T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-31T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yule-tide.generalsemiotics.net\/index.php\/2013\/03\/31\/post-7-no-love-for-robot-teachers\/"},"modified":"2013-03-31T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-03-31T00:00:00","slug":"post-7-no-love-for-robot-teachers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/2013\/03\/31\/post-7-no-love-for-robot-teachers\/","title":{"rendered":"Post-7: No Love for Robot Teachers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Last week’s essay prompt for the high-level students:<\/p><\/div>\n

Do you agree or disagree:

\n\nRobots should replace humans as teachers in the classroom.<\/strong><\/blockquote>\n

I had 27 students complete the essay. Twenty-six<\/em> opposed robot teachers. Many seemed violently opposed.<\/p>\n

The single student of mine who supported robots-as-teachers? A boy in a ninth-grade, born in the fall of 1998, according to his profile on the institute’s staff website. I have not had him in any class before. So far, he strikes me as shy and not particularly\u00a0 intellectually-curious. His reasons for supporting robots: They are “disinterested” (fair, not taking favorites) and will “always have the correct information”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Apparently, there have been some so-called “robots”<\/a> used in classrooms in Korea for two years now:<\/p>
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The 29 robots, about one metre (3.3 feet) high with a TV display panel for a face, wheeled around the classroom while speaking to the students, reading books to them and dancing to music by moving their head and arms.<\/p>\n

The robots, which display an avatar face of a Caucasian woman, are controlled remotely by teachers of English in the Philippines <\/strong>— who can see and hear the children via a remote control system.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I don’t think they actually fit the criteria of being robots, though.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last week’s essay prompt for the high-level students: Do you agree or disagree: Robots should replace humans as teachers in the classroom. I had 27 students complete the essay. Twenty-six opposed robot teachers. Many seemed violently opposed. The single student of mine who supported robots-as-teachers? A boy in a ninth-grade, born in the fall of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,26,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-korea","category-studying-and-teaching","category-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}