We are becoming too much dependent on artificial intelligence. Today's instructional design is also highly technology based. Is it a threat or an opportunity for the human teachers to flourish as an effective teacher?
Teachers are who transfer the knowledge and positively influence the students. If we consider all mandatory duties and responsibilities of a teacher, most of them can be automated by using AI techniques to perform better than human teachers. For example, self-updating on subject matters, automated course material preparation, applying student-specific teaching methods, automated assessments and so on. However, can an AI system motivate a student? can it influence a student? Can it assess the creativity of a student? these are the questions that do not have proper answers yet.
There is another interesting fact revealed by your question. Assume that an AI system can completely replace a human teacher. Then there will be no point in teaching the subject to humans as there will be intelligent machines that are experts in the subject they taught. If teachers can be replaced, then students will be replaced as well.
Teachers are who transfer the knowledge and positively influence the students. If we consider all mandatory duties and responsibilities of a teacher, most of them can be automated by using AI techniques to perform better than human teachers. For example, self-updating on subject matters, automated course material preparation, applying student-specific teaching methods, automated assessments and so on. However, can an AI system motivate a student? can it influence a student? Can it assess the creativity of a student? these are the questions that do not have proper answers yet.
There is another interesting fact revealed by your question. Assume that an AI system can completely replace a human teacher. Then there will be no point in teaching the subject to humans as there will be intelligent machines that are experts in the subject they taught. If teachers can be replaced, then students will be replaced as well.
Dear Mr. Bandara, many thanks for your excellent thought! Then the most crucial question is how to blend technology best with human teacher. My research showed that teachers even conducted more interactive classes without using any digital contents. It's dilemma! Without technology we may not be able to step with the current world of AI. on the other hand without having adequate expertise in using these would not add value to the practices. what to do then?
An excellent question (and answer by Ravimal). I think the question can be extended to ask: "Can most or all human activity be replaced by machines?" Or we can go further to ask "What is the purpose of life if work is not a part of it?" "What will we do with ourselves?" "Is there satisfaction in life without the act of accomplishing something useful?" "What effect will these changes have on personal, economic and political life?" "Who benefits and who suffers?"
At the end of the 19th and beginning of the twentieth centuries, people envisioned a world where work would be delegated to machines to such an extent that all our needs would be met with very little effort. Needless to say, this did not come to pass. Machines raised per-capita productivity, but most of the rewards went (and are going) to a new aristocratic financier class. The need for skilled labor that supported a broad middle class is disappearing. Low-skilled, repetitive work is either being delegated to robots, where cost/benefit permits or being outsourced to low-paid workers. Hardly a leisure utopia. Teaching, in many respects is already suffering as a result of this trend, hence the prevalence of low-paid adjunct professors and contract teachers. I do not see teachers being completely replaced by machines. It is possible, though, that human teachers will be reserved for only the richest students (who can afford to be students). This would be the worst outcome, in my mind. We see this already happening in other industries; e.g. air travel: pay extrafor personalized service, otherwise get stuck talking to a call center when something goes wrong.
The British linguist Ray Cliford once said, technology can't replace teachers, but teachers who use technology can replace teachers who don't use technology.
Dear Mr. Bandara, here are some answers to your questions, please take them with some scepticism.
However can an AI system motivate a student?
A student does not need motivation from a teacher, most teachers do not provide motivation to students, students can get motivated by the community.
Can it influence a student?
A student does not need influence from a teachers, nevertheless students should be aware of influence.
Can it assess the creativity of a student?
A student creativity doesn't need to be assessed.
Dear Mr. Rhindi,
It is not that easy to answer the questions with such rigid answers because the domain we discuss here is extremely wider such that we need to consider all the environments from the primary education to the higher or more professional education.
1. A teacher is always a part of the community and plays a significant role in motivating students who do not self-motivated.
2. To be aware, should be informed. Knowing the right time, right person and right method is teacher's responsibility.
3. Creativity must be assessed for the optimal guidance. Some students are highly creative and some like to stick into routines. Both, giving an abstract guidance for less-creative students and giving more concrete or rigid guidance for highly creative students are less effective. Hence the assessment of the creativity is beneficial for specialized guidance.
Besides the above point, you may check the Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy which emphasize the value of assessment of creativity (known as the highest order thinking skill).
Teaching is a kind of human skill and it differ from person to person. In addition to the above student capability is also depended to success on both. (Practically good teacher identify and develop head hart and hand of the student) if you going to replace all such cannot happen. however, THINKING AS HUMANLY is a good AI thought to build such application than the thinking optimally.
It is very important that all artificial intelligence that is developing today be for the purpose of prosperity of humankind tomorrow. AI is powerful weapon and we should be very careful where and how we using AI applications. We still don't have enough experience in this field and we don't know for sure where all this will take us. I think we should do more experiments before application of AI in real life, especially in teaching!
In order to replace teacher, AI need a set of super power computers with millions cores and millions sensors. Teaching activities involve complex tasks such as understanding students psychology, their ability, behaviour, environment, what family their come from, the complexity of course material, best assessment procedure, the risk of each activity, respect to local value, respect to others, etc etc that must be done in parallel. These tasks are simple for human CPU that has thousand sensors and even capable of utilizing other instruments to gather data, but still too complicated for machines.
Learning is a social act. Young students need the teacher and the other peers. So we need no technology for teaching neither for young students nor for older ones.
Dear Dr. Remi Okeke , it is an interesting question.
Though it can not a replace teacher, technology plays a significant role.
Technology is obviously changing the way teachers interact with students in the classroom, and teachers need to adapt in order to help students develop into responsible adults, as well as thrive in an economy heavily influenced by technology.
“I think technology will be really good at teaching knowledge, and I think humans will be really good at answering higher order Bloom's taxonomy questions that computers by their very nature are going to struggle to know how to create an answer. While technology can aid a teacher, having a human evaluator to actually assess and push students will continue to be important.
The other skill sets that teachers will still be necessary for are the social emotional ones. No question can technology help with grit, perseverance, agency, and curiosity, but in the sense that you don't move on until you show mastery on a certain concept. Curiosity can open all various levels of inquiry for you on a computer that you could ever ask for.
By the same token, having a teacher that makes sure you are using technology the right way and putting in the effort and certain things like showing up on time and developing expectations around being fair and representing your work correctly… I think teachers are going to remain uniquely situated for all of that and the emotional connection to learning.”
Technology can be used by a teacher for effective teaching but technology needs a teacher, AI or any other technology. Technology can be used to teach students of a certain level but to determine that level you need a teacher to evaluate them. The day machine becomes so intelligent to replace teacher, I think then human will also become machines(behavior wise). Slowly slowly it is becoming so.
Not replace, but make the delivery of the subject easier to understand with the help of technology.
Teachers who use advanced technology for teaching can replace teachers who don't use technology or poorly used. TQ
Teachers cant be replaced by technology. if teachers are replaced by technology then the product will be sure less human without emotionless, feeling less, moral less value less, respect less for the society and lacking harmony with society. They will puffed with pride and other egoist diseases which sure will be harmful for the society.
Dear Russel,
A really necessary question! Very contemporary!!!good!!
Well, I believe it is necessary to think in real time; in the near future and a distante future. ALSO remember the words of the great Stephen Hawking, "artificial inttelligence will be a danger tu human beings". maybe he had information that many of us do not know. Also remembering that development does not arrive in a synchronized way to all countries. If so, the possible answers would be easier.
Romantically I think that in the short term, we will not be replaced so easily, because teachers not only transmit knowledge but we are human teaching more than knowledge. We transmit our personal stamp...and that...has no replacement.
Unduobtedly, the tendency is for technology to replace everything, almost taking it away from human beings. The question is rather, can we resist the ambition of those creative humans who develop such robotic technology?
Millions of dollars are allocated at the Nanyang Technological University for this purpose and others....So, I´m afraid that in the very, very long term, we will all be dispensable....
NEVERTHELESS!...never ends one of being surprised and findings an exit to "chaos": one day, I heard Dr. Nadia Magnenat Thalmann, the woman who has a robot in her image and likeness, that her robot was storing information about her and different people who they talked to him, and that later he could start a conversation with. She programmed it that way. At that time I asked myself: and where is the limit? in the silence, I answered! The robot can not know what I do not say!!! So in that case, there is hope that it will not be replaced 100%....
All the answers above would be correct. We've got to understand in the first place why technology is built - to ease our daily lives. And we know who built it - human beings. Teachers and whoever are using technologies should appreciate this. But they need to know how to use them and how much usage they can do. If teachers want technology to replace them, there must be a rule when and which situation. As all of us might agree, even with distant learning, they are teachers or tutors that are at the other end. Hence, as some colleagues mentioned above, technology does complement, but there is still a human touch for students to learn, otherwise teachers might not be needed any more which is impossible. I am a teacher, and I still exist, and I use technology.
there is no replacement to teachers
Even to learn about technology one has to guide you.
one may depend on technology for better understanding
but there is no better tool than human brain ....whether to understand/ explain/ teach.
I think no at this time. Probably, the role of the teacher will continue to decrease with time, but it is difficult to completely replaced with the technology. However, the development of the technology can not be predicted.
Regards
Teaching is about science and art. Teachers can use technology for the science part. Regarding the artistic part of teaching, technology is neutral but for the teachers, it depends a lot on body language and what teachers say or do besides the course material. Unless teachers affect positivily the students, technology is better.
I don't think so. If someone watch a well illustrated video, still a teacher will be required to explain some aspects for complete clarity.
nowdays both are having equal importance, and good teachers alwayz utilize technology
Dear Dr. Rasel Babu , it is an interesting question
Technology Will Not Replace Teachers. Technology is going to play a critical role in the future of education. But not as big a role as that of a teacher.
There is an onslaught of technology on the modern classroom. Teachers, administrators, parents, and students alike are being told that technology is the whetstone with which we can all sharpen our education system. Technology can open doors, expand minds, and change the world.
That may be true, but it’s not the panacea that it’s been made out to be. As much innovation as the iPad may bring to the classroom, it’s not going to replace a teacher anytime soon. In fact, the influx of technology like iPads means there is a greater need for teachers. We need teachers who are part early adopter, part integrator, and part mad scientist. The modern teacher must be willing to take chances and able to figure out how not just how technology works, but how it works for each student, and where its use is most appropriate.
Personalized tech-infused learning is the future of education. We started Edudemic to share the best education technology resources. Now it’s no longer good enough to just share resources. So we started Modern Lessons in an effort to bring all teachers, parents, and students around the world up to speed on modern technology. It is our goal to help bring personalized tech-infused learning to classrooms around the world. Not just the ones in first world countries, but to find efficient ways to bring technology into the classrooms of every country.
There is a problem, however. When someone mentions using technology in education, the conversation shifts away from education and pedagogy, and transforms into dreams of shiny new gizmos and gadgets filling our classrooms. That’s a problem - It’s not about the technology. Rather, the sleek and ever more powerful devices that are coming down the pipeline are simply one part of a teacher’s toolkit. The technology is not the lesson, it is there to enhance the lesson.
A classroom with one iPad or one laptop for every student may offer opportunities that a classroom with one computer for the teacher to use does not. But technology in such abundance is not education’s magic bullet. Instead of having an all-technology-all-the-time classroom, teachers should leverage the technology when it can ameliorate the lesson. You can flip your classroom without relying solely on technology. Project-based learning activities don’t have to happen in totally tech driven environments.
Our classrooms are changing, and without a doubt they will look quite different in five or ten years than they do today. New technologies are being developed quickly, and with so many different trends taking hold, it is yet to be seen what will be shaken out and what will stick. Will MOOCs or a similar online learning concept start to take over? Will we have robots for teachers?
One thing we feel strongly about: teachers aren’t going anywhere. Whatever word you choose - teacher, tutor, preceptor, or something else - the role a teacher plays in the classroom is huge. Everyone knows this on a personal level, and can identify a teacher or mentor who has had influence on us or changed our trajectories in a positive way.
Teachers are not, and cannot be automatons handing out information to students. They are leaders, guides, facilitators, and mentors. They encourage students when they struggle, and inspire them to set and reach for their goals. They are role models, leading by example and giving direction when necessary. A computer can give information, but a teacher can lend a hand, or an ear, and discern what’s necessary for a student to succeed, and to want to succeed.
So yes, technology is going to play a critical role in the future of education. But not as big a role as that of a teacher.
Technology can never replace a teacher. A teacher must acquire latest skills. Acquired skills always help in getting new opportunities.
Without a teacher (everyone knows the definition of teacher) whatsoever you get can be the information but true knowledge is obtained only from a teacher. Teacher is the one who bridges this gap. We all believe knowledge is power and the teacher is the one who also educate the right use of that power, while technology will not. It is also proven that nations who started disbelieving in the teachers are history.
This is era of technology and everyone is in a hurry to replace his/her every single thing/relation with the technological practices and gadgets. Like spouse can be a robot and a huge industry is ready to sell you spouse of your choice.
In my point of view, technology should be assisting, supporting, complementing for a better humanity but not a substitute. It is also proven and will be proved for many cases that when human being started altering the laws of nature, circumstances were really disastrous.
So technology should play the role that it is meant for not more than that.
By the way, if you just sit quite and compare world with and without technology then perhaps we will not be able to defend that technology has provided more losses compared to the benefits to humanity.
Because behind most of the technological developments the major cause is greed/money/power not the welfare for humanity and results are according.
There were so many efforts to replace teachers or to automate the learning processes with programmed books or by computer programs. Now we have a new shooting star: AI. No computer is as smart as a human teacher. Computers do not understand what they are doing and they do not understand what a student means when he answers a question in free text.
It would be better to spend money for more well trained human teachers than in computer hardware.
Technology will never replace the teachers because technology is developed by a person.it will only create results.but how it works all are taught by teachers.
This can happen in some hypothesis only. No artificial intelligence system can replace a teacher.
Dear respected scholars,
I am grateful to you for your thoughts. very insightful! I will be back to you in person with my opinion regarding your comments. I am learning a lot from you. Truly!
Many thanks. Please keep sharing your ideas.
Technology facilitates teacher's task of teaching but can not replace teachers as a whole!
A teacher is not a machine. Technology is man made and can not be a replacement, but a facilitator.
No, but technology may be representing an active tool that helps a teacher, and our students are still needing emotional mixture with teaching process.
Regards,
Emad
Technology should only be a tool to complement the efforts of teachers, it should not replace a teacher. however, there may be instances where technology alone may suffice and as such it should not be seen as a threat to the existence or flourish of teachers.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of extraordinary man....Elbert Hubbard
Teachers should NOT be replaced by technology .No person should be replaced by technology.
Humans have LIFE , technology doesn't is a dead thing , so it is infintely inferior to humans.
In terms of performance - techology may outperform humans- but it is guided by humans , directly or indirectly - software and hardware is done by humans. Even if software and hardware may be produced by technology "alone" , why should this happen? What are the goals of human life? Only performance , a long life , and to be healthy all the life?
Moral values? Friendship? In the secularized world unfortunately technology may replace - hopefully this will NOT HAPPEN- humans, life and anything specific to these .
Technology can only complement the work of a teacher but not necessarily a replacement
Isolated technology has no feeling or emotion that allows commitment and seriousness in transforming action through education. Teacher with emotion and commitment will never be replaced by any technology.
Nice Thought...But someone said to me 1000s of Computers cannot replace a GOOD TEACHER...
Dear,
thanks for sharing.
I also had this concern. But after I've shared a question here in RG (it's in the next link), I'm much calmer about it. Cheers!
https://www.researchgate.net/post/How_do_you_envision_the_future_research_environment_in_the_academy_Are_we_all_subsumed_by_computers_and_robots
No! The teaching profession requires the human element (understanding, empathy, etc) which technology cannot in anyway replace.
Thousands of Computers (Technology) can't replace a GOOD TEACHER...
dear mister Dickson Adom, most of the time the human element (understanding, empathy, etc) introduces lots of biases which is a burden on the student . Student are misunderstood, (mis)emphasized, etc.
Technology has no face to compare/replace a teacher of any level, where technologies are developed from the point on teachers, I feel so.
Technology is a competition to teachers. Because it is neutral, I think technology can replace bad teachers.
In 1998, Kodak employed 1,70,000 employees and sold 85% of the world's photo papers. Within the last few years, digital photography made them out of the market. Kodak went bankrupt and all his staff came on the road.
There was no shortage of quality at all, yet they were out of the market !!
reason???
They have not changed over time.
There is no work left for young lawyers in the US now because the software named IBM Watson gives better legal advice throughout the moment. In the next 10 years, 90% of Americans will become unemployed ... who will save 10% ... they will be Super Specialists.
By 2018, Driverless cars will land on the roads. By 2020, this single invention will start to change the whole world.
90% cars will disappear from the streets of the world in the next 10 years ... Those who will survive will either have electric cars or hybrid ... roads will be empty, consumption of petrol will decrease by 90%, all Arab countries will become bankrupt .
You will request a car from a software like Uber and in a few moments, a driverless car will be parked at your door ... if you share it with someone, that ride will be cheaper than your bike.
Due to being a driverless of cars, 99% of accidents will stop. This will stop the business of Car Insurance.
No employment like a driver will survive on earth. When 90% cars will disappear from cities and roads, problems like Traffic and Parking will end automatically ... because a car will be equal to 20 cars today.
From today 5 or 10 years ago, there was no such place where there is no PCO. When the mobile phone arrived, the PCOs had to shut down. The PCO people started selling the mobile phones. Now the recharge is also going online.
Have you ever noticed ..?
Today, every third store in the market is a mobile phone store which does
sale, service and maintenance of phones and it's accessories..
Almost all payments are done by Paytm today ..
People have started booking railway tickets with their phones. The transaction of money is also changing. Currency Note was replaced by Plastic Money and now it's
Digital...
Hence...
Every Person should continue to make changes in his business or his / her way of working and should also change his / her nature over time for Good.
"Keep Updating / Upgrading Your Skills and Knowledge with Time"
I think that by 50 years from now no college or school every human will have a super computer with internet by which they will get everything. The purpose of school and college is to train and remember things in your mind, but if a small computer will able to perform that what is the need of education, only you want to know how to operate that super computer.
The world is changing very fast ..
Keep Your eyes and ears open or else you will lose ...
Be prepared to change with time.
May be technology replace a teacher....but technology also discovered by human....but it's not a person to teach emotionally...we all become machine...no one will substitute good teachers... good teachers are still alive in this world...
No, technology can't replace teacher.A good teacher remove all difficulties by giving different examples to explain the problem but technology unable to explain by giving different examples.With the help of technology teacher explain more efficiently but technology alone never replace good teacher.
I believe that the process of learning during many years of human life is a spiritual process before it is physical. There is no substitute for the teacher, but technology can be a companion to the teacher during the learning process.
One cannot replace human emotions related to joy, grief, honor, pride, love.
Technology's role in the teaching and learning processes is only complementary to the efforts of a human instructor to effect maximum learning outcomes. Technology replacing a human teacher? Very impossible!
I think definitely,
Technology has a significant role in teaching.
No. Technology aids teaching and may promote quality education but can not replace teacher.
In most cases , the teacher has a secondary role but his presence is necessary in certain cases.
Certainly not. Technology can only complement just like Dr. Dickson Adom and Segun Michael Abegunde noted.
Teacher (GURU) is mandatory for overall development.
Technology only provides knowledge ..
It may not be able to replace the teachers of basic education of children completely, but may replace teachers of higher education in near future.
Thanks.
Technology play an integral part in education; however, technology can never replace teachers. I strongly believe in the teaching profession as I believe that it is my true enthusiasm and strength. Teachers do not just report information and neither is teaching just about facts, statistics and of course it does not encourage small-mindedness and lack of social interaction. Promoting the use of technology in the classroom is only possible by coordinating effectively with teachers.
Technology play an integral part in education; however, technology can never replace teachers. I strongly believe in the teaching profession as I believe that it is my true enthusiasm and strength. Teachers do not just report information and neither is teaching just about facts, statistics and of course it does not encourage small-mindedness and lack of social interaction. Promoting the use of technology in the classroom is only possible by coordinating effectively with teachers.
The use of technology is very useful in teaching. It is necessary to use the internet, smart boards and audiovisual aids. But, despite the great progress in the field of technology, the teacher remains the one responsible for using it efficiently. Technology never replaces man regardless of its big development.
Dear Rasel Babu ,
Actually, the technology can't replace the role of the teacher.
However, there is no doubt for the teaching is more effective with the technology aid.
Also, nowadays, there is developing about online education, e-learning, webinar, skype conference, and video conferencing.
In addition, with AI (Artificial Intelligence), there is more and more excellent robot are inventing by the scientists and the engineers.
These could be considered for your question.
Sincerely
Artificial intelligence belongs to evolved cultures and is a certainty of the future. Trained people will use advanced technology, mastering it. But this does not mean the lack of rationality, good sense and love inspired by the education of trainers devoted to the teaching career.
For sure not. Some aspects will be replaced, but a real teacher will never be replaced by technology! Teaching is not only about sending information to the others. Is about communion and dialogue! This will never be accomplished by technology!
Not at all. Extensions of any part of our body will never replace the whole person, the thinking, imaginative and creative human.
Dear colleague
Your question is very timely.
It is unpredictable how far the development of artificial intelligence will go.
I can not imagine a master-robot.
However, there are very surprising discussions about it.
I recommend a look at the following discussion forums where opinions seem very different with regard to the future and the reach of these technologies, the arguments are really disturbing.
https://www.researchgate.net/post/Definitely_Will_the_development_of_artificial_intelligence_eventually_change_the_philosophical_concepts_and_axiological_values_of_humanity
https://www.researchgate.net/post/Can_we_really_talk_about_a_modification_of_human_values
I'm afraid it will be in the near future. And what about feelings, smile, encouragement, encouragement, praise, all you want to get from the machine ... I change my job!
I will appreciate it, as machines will not be biased in any form (if humans have not programmed them, as their own self) they will deal all students equally without discrimination. The extent of role, that technology, as a teacher will play might be different but, it will be there.
Artificial Intelligence is both a boon and a bane in today's world. It helps you in many ways to work effectively and efficiently. In a technology based world of today, we may find it helpful and as an easier solution to many of our problems. It is a merit until the control of machines is in our hands. A machine being a teacher may provide both positive and negative approaches for various reasons. It may give accurate answers to the queries of students and may explain in detail on various aspects and areas of the subject but it fails in keeping up with the teacher student relationship where the need of human presence plays an integral role. A machine can never be relied upon completely. According to me, a human brain can process far more information than the fastest supercomputers. Why should we train up our future generations with AI when we are the creators of technology? Why should we be thought by a machine that is mastered by us? It should be used to make our lives easier not dependable. AI should be used as an aid to help teachers but should never be used to replace us. Teaching is the most noble profession in the world. A teacher is a burning candle that lights up the world. I strongly discourage the use of AI as teachers but encourage it to be used an a helpful tool for teachers.
المعلم هو القدوة والمؤثر في حياة طلابه المستقبلية لذا لا يمكن أن تكون التكنلوجيا مكانه
The teacher is the role model in the life of his future students so technology can not be his place
Ja ich meine auch so... aber wer weiss ob die menschen eine gute zukunft auf der Erde haben, wennsie sich ''so gut um sie kummern!''
Technology has a lot of relief for the human kind, but that doesn’t mean it can substitute humans. And, the cause for this is its inability to interact with humans.
Technology has, no doubts, brought a lot of relief for the human kind, but that doesn’t mean it can overpower or substitute humans. And, the major cause for this is its inability to interact with humans...Coming to the education sector, technology is undoubtedly a boon for many, as while on one hand, it does make learning easy for students, on the other it eases the teaching process for the teachers. However, no matter how advanced the technology gets, the fact is that it can never fill the role of a teacher.
Hi All,
I think that technology can't ever replace a teacher, ever and never.
Technology can be used as an educational mean, that is it !!! how ever this use is more or less "intelligent", simply because we learn from teachers more than their expertise; their moral values.
Sincerely.
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