Saturday, February 26, 2011

Machines vs human teachers

Machines might be able to replace human teachers in the future, but not now. Machines are not able to process information independently, needing a controller to input suggested answers when marking, and they are not flexible enough when it comes to marking, being only able to mark things based on the inputed information and not based on their own knowledge. It is true that the internet is a great source of information, but what are are the true and false information present in the internet. Not everything on the internet is absolutely correct. Also, getting a machine to teach is akin to asking students to read their textbooks. It is the same, as since machines cannot process thoughts and can only repeat the data given to them. Also, though information present in the textbooks are supposed to be correct, some information might be wrong. If there was a human teacher, the teacher might be able to correct the information. but since the machine teacher does things based on information given to it, it cannot correct mistakes and all the students will be implicated. Thus, the current machines cannot replace human teachers.

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