TEACHING ROBOTS IN THE CURRENT CLASSROON


Actually we can see the intervention of technology in the current classroom and of course all the advantages and disadvantages that those new methods brings to the students. The chief reason why I’m writing this essay Is because human teacher may be replaced for the introduction of ITS (Intelligent tutoring systems) or teaching robots that are computer systems that provide personalized instruction and feedback to students though facial expression recognition without human intervention. In this moment we don’t know how successful Is going to be this project, but I’m completely sure that all of us should ask to ourselves the question Is it possible that one day robots could replace human teachers? And how we want to educate our children? The answer to these questions seems to be no clear; for example, Jacob Whitehill, the manager of this researching said that "The technology can facilitate these more advanced learning scenarios; although we aren’t completely sure about the advantages of applying ITS as teachers in the current classroom, Olney another expert said that "The ITS which have been developed are already better teachers than people who have no experience," and he felt that human teachers would always have an important role and I’m completely agree with him when he said that the current classroom set-up faces change because we can see monothematic classes and students that are not aware about their autonomous learning process, as a consequence we can think a lot of things respect to this topic but what I want to share with this essay are the advantages and disadvantages of having teaching robots in the current classroom.
If we are going to talk about the advantages of the (ITS) In the current classroom we can mention that the traditional model of learning is consistently shown as one of the worst ways to teach people and according to Olney words “It's much better for a student to have one-on-one interaction”. I think that It Is very important for the society to have the world in connection to access easily to the information and motivate people to know whatever they want and whenever they want. Another advantage according to the original source is that in the future we will see many different types of learning environments and in that case we can truly close educational achievement gaps through constructive use of the technology, for example in this aspect the machine is going to be adapted to each environment and the best of all is going to be adapted to the learning process of each student thought facial expression recognition; I mean that the ITS is going identify the gestures of the student and then, is going to teach. In my way of thinking the greatest advantage of this achievement for all of us is that Children in the future will be able to explore and learn about domains at far younger ages and with far greater results through computational approaches. They will be able to work with and learn from people around the world through connectivity, but the first advantage that called my attention is that they will be able to learn without boundaries as an expert said.
Now the disadvantages to the application of this technology in the current classroom could be that some students are not enough serious to assume their learning process with responsibility, but I think that the greatest disadvantage of this technology is the moral and ethical support that all human needs in their growing process because people have to have a behavior with values and Is obvious that the machine Is not aware about that. One other disadvantage of ITS is relative when students need to share their opinions and points of view to make the feedback of their knowledge and of course it is impossible with the machines because they can not think and solve problem, they only can give information. There could be more disadvantages but I want to emphasize it in those interesting topics.

As a consequence of the advantages and disadvantages of this smart technology we should think in the future, in how our children are going to be educated and what kind of society we are forming though the application of this tutoring systems or teaching robots. The inventor of this researching (Jacob Whitehill) said that his goal is not to change how people learn but rather to adapt computer and robot interfaces to how people learn. He is trying to bring the robot teachers to us, not the other way around. Finally I agree with Jacob when he said “The technology is not the most difficult part. Helping institutions to change and adapt to enable the new possibilities is the most difficult element. What is needed is vision and political will”; In my way of thinking this a new paradigm that we have to face up in order to find out the best way to teach and form people for the new challenges that are coming up!
Finally in the learning process we will ever need people who manage our knowledge and people who help us to construct new ideas through the interaction of human beings.