24. Get ready. Robots are about to enter our classroom. From Korea to Japan to the United States, schools are putting English-speaking robots in front of their students. In Korea, robots are the new teaching assistants in a number of preschools and kindergartens. (1)
, but are these children really learning anything?
I don't think a computer will ever be able to do what a teacher does. A teacher has to be able to respond to students as individuals (个体). (2)
and a teacher has to change his or her teaching style to fit the needs of the student. I seriously doubt that a computer will ever be able to do this even though the big data (数据) is widely used in the world.
Here are 4 comments on "Robots Are Now Teaching English!"
Sara says:
In my opinion, schools should spend money training human teachers rather than buying robots. (3)
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Keiko says:
I don't think you can learn a language without real human interaction. (4)
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Hassan says:
Robots might be able to help people learn a language, but I don't think they should replace teachers because robots are just machines without human feelings.
Nancy says:
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. A child might be less afraid to make a mistake in front of a robot than in front of a real person.
What's your opinion about this?
A. Each student is different B. The young students say that the robots are fun C. After all, robots cannot think as humans do D. Robots can do many things to help students learn English E. I think robots might be very helpful in the classroom F. You can see many kinds of robots which can help to learn a language in the school G. Research shows that children learn more from real speakers than from recorded conversations |