Dear researchers/teachers,

I think that central role in learning is student. The teacher can help students to learn, but can not substitute. The teacher can use some ITC to help more effectively.

Article Adaptive learning with e-knowledge systems

Best regards,

Konstantin M. Golubev

Dear researchers/teachers,

I think that central role in learning is student. The teacher can help students to learn, but can not substitute. The teacher can use some ITC to help more effectively.

Article Adaptive learning with e-knowledge systems

Best regards,

Konstantin M. Golubev

Hi! First: What does this new abbreviation ITC stand for? Do you mean ICT (information and communication technology), which is the common university sector term for IT (Information technology). Otherwise, ITC stands for International Trade Center or Imperial Tobacco Company in India.

ICT is a very useful general term, which I suppose is the term you meant to use?. A recommendation is to use it in plural, ”ICTs” when a general meaning is intended. Very practical, since it is not one technology only. Second recommendation is to remember that we had ICTs long before any invention of computers. Writing itself is an ICT, as is print, etc etc. When we talk about the ICTs used in education today, we should perhaps talk about “digitalized” ICTs, as these are rather much digital versions of older analogue ICTs. What such ICTs do is primarily to lower the friction of information more and more. A huge step in this is taken with digitalisation of ICTs, but this still only threatens the teacher role as information transferer in the classroom, a role pedagogy since long has critisized. But what is new and unique with true digital ICTs, is their ability to process information outside human (or biological) brains. This becomes more critical when it comes to the role of the teacher. We here mean ICTs as learning analytics and adaptive learning, both making use of the fact that specialized digital ICTs can process a lot more information than a human that tries to talk and keep order in a classroom at the same time as he/she is trying to analyze student learning and individualize instruction. A hopeless task, we know that.

In this situation, there are now basically two ways of development. One in China, where software companies want to get rid of the teachers, or at least dont need as many. check up Squirrel AI Learning. They arrange competitions in teaching between humans and computer programs. I think this is a hopeless way of development, but the arguments are good: In this way all children get the same quality of teaching...

In the Western tradition, AI in learning is more about taking AI ICTs as a help for the teacher, freeing him up from some task that a computer can do and letting him/her concentrate on things only a human can do - personal feedback to students, motivating and mentoring students, discussing, applying, etc. if you want an overview of AI in education, buy the small book I link below, it has a cheap pdf version. Read part 2, by Wayne Holmes.

If you are philosophically interested in this matter, read Luciano Floridi and his Philosophy and Ethics of Information.

Book Artificial Intelligence in Education. Promise and Implicatio...

Human can't be replaced by technology. Technology may help to facilitate teaching.

Thanks for your valious comments and recomendations Konstantin, Anders and Irshad.

ICT can only provide assistance and is helpful for both student and teacher but cant substitute humans

Interesting question and replies

I agree with most respondents above.

ICT will not replace teaching as we know it today

However it has and I believe it will continue to bring on new norms of education.

Thanks for your opinion Constantine.

ICT as a tool for teachers. Teachers can choose appropiated technoly to help them to teach. This means that ICT can both assist or replace some things that teachers need to do. However ICT was created by Man or teachers, so teacher is high value and intelligence more than ICT.

Thanks for your opinions Boontip and Bushra

As some of the things only human teachers can do can be more effectively done by ICT, the teachers' roles change. But, bear in mind that ICT has to be programmed to maximize effective teaching methods of teachers; so, in the end, human teachers are important. An ICT-based teaching based on poor learning principles just magnify poor (human) teaching. Programmers may and may not have knowledge of effective teacher methods -- a good instructional programme is not a display or firework of programming skills.

The question should be rephrased to: will the new teacher who knows how to utilize ICT in sound pedagogical ways, substitute the teacher who does neither know ICT nor how to use it properly in education. The answer is: yes.

Thanks for your comments Kay and Maria.