An interesting quote that I just heard attributed to Arthur C Clarke (in a talk by Sugata Mitra) and something similar crops up in The Underachieving School.
My first thought was NO, technological determinism! But then after thinking about it, the answer is of course YES! Whether it was intended to be or not the idea is actually incredibly liberating. The role of a teacher is to do the things that cannot be replaced by a machine. If a teacher is doing something that can be replaced, then it is good for everyone to have it replaced. If a lecture can be replaced with a video, questions answered by the web or learning facilitated by a VLE then great. In fact if I can get a robot to do my job then I would be very happy.






May 18th, 2009 at 8:14 pm
You have no need to worry, we will (man kind) will always, need to also learn people as well as, order/ structure skills. Long live the people