Review 1: Take care cut does not drive talent away
Review 2: George Yeo not running for President
Review 3: MOE seeks ways to beat the heat in class
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Your sincerely,
Sean
27/7/2011 English E-Learning Assignment I disagree to a certain extend that it is a good idea to use avatars to replace humans as teachers in schools. As technology in the 21st century is very advanced, I think that replacing humans as teachers with robots will bring a disastrous event of ‘retrenchment’ to reality. Due to the low material cost for the making and programming of robots, it has a great potential to danger the teachers’ job. People may use the robots to save a great sum of money in order to purchase advanced technology for equipments in school, therefore they will think it’s a advantageous act. However, they probably didn’t know that teachers is a very important role model that students have. Studies said that lots of those lazy, bad attitudes students were changed to good due to the help of teachers. Teachers may be fierce, angry but did those people ever think the feelings of robots? Robots have no feelings, they are iron-hearted. Whenever students make a mistake, they will punish them harshly. Also, a computer doesn't understand when a teenager has had a fight with her mother or boyfriend, when she's up at two in the morning with a sick infant, or when his mother is dying of cancer. You need a human for that. Teaching is not just about subject matter. It's about helping students through the difficult parts of their lives, while making sure they are learning. Lastly, I think what a teacher does is to engage in a conversation with a student or many students. A real teacher doesn’t just broadcast; she senses what the students understand and don’t understand to get them to where they need to be. That’s not what a computer does.In conclusion, I think that teachers shouldn’t be replaced by robots even with all those advantages that robots carry with them.
Review 2: George Yeo not running for President
Review 3: MOE seeks ways to beat the heat in class
Please pardon me for any of my wrong pronounciation.
Your sincerely,
Sean
27/7/2011 English E-Learning Assignment
I disagree to a certain extend that it is a good idea to use avatars to replace humans as teachers in schools. As technology in the 21st century is very advanced, I think that replacing humans as teachers with robots will bring a disastrous event of ‘retrenchment’ to reality. Due to the low material cost for the making and programming of robots, it has a great potential to danger the teachers’ job. People may use the robots to save a great sum of money in order to purchase advanced technology for equipments in school, therefore they will think it’s a advantageous act. However, they probably didn’t know that teachers is a very important role model that students have. Studies said that lots of those lazy, bad attitudes students were changed to good due to the help of teachers. Teachers may be fierce, angry but did those people ever think the feelings of robots? Robots have no feelings, they are iron-hearted. Whenever students make a mistake, they will punish them harshly. Also, a computer doesn't understand when a teenager has had a fight with her mother or boyfriend, when she's up at two in the morning with a sick infant, or when his mother is dying of cancer. You need a human for that. Teaching is not just about subject matter. It's about helping students through the difficult parts of their lives, while making sure they are learning. Lastly, I think what a teacher does is to engage in a conversation with a student or many students. A real teacher doesn’t just broadcast; she senses what the students understand and don’t understand to get them to where they need to be. That’s not what a computer does.In conclusion, I think that teachers shouldn’t be replaced by robots even with all those advantages that robots carry with them.