Robots Could Replace Teachers | LiveScience - 4 views
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And social robots have a potentially growing role in these future learning environments
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The premise for the new thinking: We humans are born immature and naturally curious, and become creatures capable of highly complex cultural achievements
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new principles for human learning, new educational theories and designs for learning environments that better match how we learn best,
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During those years and up to puberty, our brains exhibit "neural plasticity" — it's easier to learn languages, including foreign languages. It's almost magical how we learn a foreign language, what becomes our native tongue, in the first two or three years we're alive, Meltzoff said
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In this case, they are "visiting" adult culture and learning how to act like the people in our culture, becoming more like us.
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If you roll all these human learning features into the field of robotics, there is a somewhat natural overlap — robots are well-suited to imitate us, learn from us, socialize with us and eventually teach us, the researchers say.
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figure out how to combine the passion and curiosity for learning that children display with formal schooling. There is no reason why curiosity and passion can’t be fanned at school where there are dedicated professionals, teachers, trying to help children learn
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Still, children clearly learn best from other people and playgroups of peers, Meltzoff said, and he doesn't see children in the future being taught entirely by robots.
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By developing a very sophisticated computational model of a child's mind, we can help improve that child's performance," Sejnowski said
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If kids learn better behavior from a social robot, I like it! Good idea. Many kids learn bad behavior from other human being such as drug abuse. And they cannot control it! I think it is human who are urging us for the use of a robot in this case. For example, I may feel much safer than hiring a stranger for a baby sitting.
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In the future, robots will only be used to teach certain skills, such as acquiring a foreign or new language, possibly in playgroups with children or to individual adults. But robot teachers can be cost-effective compared to the expense of paying a human teacher, Meltzoff told LiveScience.
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Actually, we already have a robot teaching our kids - children's television, which, annoying as it is to adults, gives any child with access a fundamental shared basis for real human teachers to build on: Sesame Street, Dirty Jobs, etc.
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Actually, we already have a robot teaching our kids - children's television, which, annoying as it is to adults, gives any child with access a fundamental shared basis for real human teachers to build on
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TEACHERS NOT ONLY TEACH SUBJECTS BUT ALSO MORALS AND ETHICS. NO ROBOT CAN TEACH THESE THINGS IF CHILDREN ARE TAUGHT BY TEACHERS WHO HAVE NO SENSE OF MORALS AND ETHICS THEY WILL GROW UP TO BE ROBOTS NOT HUMANS
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I would applaud any system that worked well for many students and eliminated behavior problems, and made education alot more fun for the students. The more fun the activites used to teach a lesson are, and the more the students enjoy such activities, the less resistance students would give to learn. But there always has to be instructors there.
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The article introduces Meltzoff's essay and explores the possibility of robot teachers. If we really use a robot teachers, what area is the most suitable to use for educating children? This kind of detail knowledge is much helpful than broad and often ambiguous idea that often cause confusion and even fear. (Too much sci-fi movie?) "The essay, published in the July 17 issue of the journal Science, outlines new insights into how humans learn now and could learn in the future, based on various studies including some that document the amazing amount of brain development that happens in infants and later on in childhood." "The essay is the first published article as part of a collaboration between the TDLC and the LIFE Center, both of which are funded under multimillion-dollar grants from the National Science Foundation. Meltzoff's other co-authors on the essay are Patricia Kuhl of the University of Washington and Javier Movellan of the TDLC."