Why Teachers Won't Be Replaced By Software

Re:Why Teachers Won't Be Replaced By Software by ronaldx on Friday February 14, 2014 @06:50PM (#7241910)

It's not exactly clear what you mean, or you need to be more specific: a curriculum is curated content.

Good curriculums are covering over a lot of poor teaching.

Writing a good curriculum is hard and it's exceptionally difficult to do that as a lone teacher for a novel course. The results will be variable, and this is where you will the very most awful courses.

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Re:Why Teachers Won't Be Replaced By Software by brianpmarks on Friday February 14, 2014 @08:26PM (#7242200)

I'd say in a situation where a good curriculum exists, teachers need to take the role of coach and motivator.

I couldn't agree more about the difficulty in creating a good curriculum. The big question in our minds becomes whether or not a decentralized and distributed system can create great curricula and reduce the pressure on that lone teacher. I believe the answer is yes and with such a system we end up with better courses.

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Re:Why Teachers Won't Be Replaced By Software by gravity13 on Friday February 14, 2014 @08:37PM (#7242241)

It was more a comment on teachers and their currently established ways.

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