{"id":15,"date":"2013-04-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yule-tide.generalsemiotics.net\/index.php\/2013\/04\/01\/post-8-robot-supporter-demographics\/"},"modified":"2013-04-01T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-04-01T00:00:00","slug":"post-8-robot-supporter-demographics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/2013\/04\/01\/post-8-robot-supporter-demographics\/","title":{"rendered":"Post-8: Who Wants Robot-Teachers?"},"content":{"rendered":"
Yesterday, I mentioned<\/a> how opposed <\/em>my students were to the philosophical prospect of “robot teachers<\/strong>“.<\/p>\n

Well, being as I was curious for a bigger sample size, and being as three other foreign-teachers at this institute also had classes complete this essay, I glanced at the others, via the online system. (We can see anyone’s essay, anytime).\u00a0 Purely personal curiosity, no pretense of direct educational value. (But tangential value, perhaps).<\/p>\n

<\/span>I calculated the totals for all the institute’s students, and present the data below, based on school-grade, gender, and skill-level of the students. (These students are generally-upper-middle-class Korean 7th-9th graders, living in a Seoul satellite city).
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Results:<\/strong><\/font>
92 essays were written in total
8 supported robot teachers [8.7%]<\/p>\n

As I suspected, though, there is a wide <\/em>variation in opinion depending on the type of student:
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Demographic Characteristics of the “Robot Supporters”:<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

By Gender<\/em>
— 6 \/ 44 Boys supported robot teachers [12% of the boys who wrote this essay]
— 2 \/ 48 Girls supported robot teachers [4% of the girls who wrote this essay]
[See much more here]<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/font>\n<\/div>\n

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\n<\/span>By School Grade<\/em>
— 6 \/ 55 Ninth Graders [11%] [3rd-grade-middle-school in Korea, born in 1998]<\/font>
— 2 \/ 20 Eighth Graders [10%] [2nd-grade-middle-school in Korea, born in 1999]<\/font>
— 0 \/ 17 Seventh Graders [0%] [1st-grade-middle-school in Korea, born in 2000]<\/font><\/p>\n

By Gender and School Grade<\/span><\/em>
— 5 ninth-grade boys said ‘Yes’ to robot-teachers \/<\/span> 28 ninth-grade boys completed the essay [18%]
— Of the <\/span>64 other <\/em>students (ninth-grade girls and all non-ninth-graders)<\/font> who completed the assignment, only three<\/u> said ‘Yes’ to robot-teachers [5%]<\/p>\n

By Skill Level<\/em>
(Four different skill-groupings completed the assignment. Together, these form<\/font><\/font> the top–<\/font>20%-or-so, <\/font>by English ability level,<\/font><\/font> of the institute’s middle-schoolers)<\/font>
— 1 \/ 24 [4%] — Highest-Level Cohort [PO] — The students with the highest ability level in the institute
— 2 \/ 18 [11%] — 2nd-Highest-Level Cohort [E3]
— 2 \/ 26 [8%] — 3rd-Highest-Level Cohort [T3\/E2]
— 3 \/ 24 [13%] — 4th-Highest-Level Cohort [T2]
— x \/ 402 — Other 7th-9th-grade students enrolled at the institute, who are in lower-skill cohorts \/ Did not write this essay.<\/font><\/p>\n

Note: The two girls who supported robot-teachers are in PO and E3, the highest and second-highest<\/span> classes. All the rest in the above are boys.
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Conclusion:<\/strong> <\/span><\/font>
<\/span>Opposition to robot-teachers is overwhelming<\/em><\/span> (around 20-to-1) among all subgroups of the institute’s students, except lower-skill-level older boys, among whom opposition to robots-as-teachers is only three-to-one or so. <\/p>\n

<\/span>Question:<\/strong><\/font>
<\/span>I can understand why girls would prefer human teachers (most students seemed to say something like: “as robots cannot understand human emotion, they would be ineffective teachers”), but why were higher-skill-level students so opposed?<\/strong> Of the 24 PO students, all eight boys were anti-robot, and 15 of the 16 girls were anti-robot.<\/p>\n

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