'Inspirational' robots to begin replacing teachers within 10 years
'Inspirational' robots to begin replacing teachers within
10 years
The machines will react to children's brain waves and
facial expressions
By Henry Bodkin 11 SEPTEMBER 2017 • 12:01AM
Robots will begin replacing teachers in the classroom
within the next ten years as part of a revolution in one-to-one learning, a
leading educationalist has predicted.
Sir Anthony Seldon, Vice-Chancellor of the University of
Buckingham, said intelligent machines that adapt to suit the learning styles of
individual children will soon render traditional academic teaching all but
redundant.
The former Master of Wellington College said programmes
currently being developed in Silicon Valley will learn to read the brains and
facial expressions of pupils, adapting the method of communication to what
works best for them.
The impact is
going to be massive
Sir Anthony Seldon
The new era of automated teaching promises an end to
grouping children by year, as the personalised nature of the robots will enable
pupils to learn new material at their own pace, rather than as part of a class.
"It will open up the possibility of an Eton or
Wellington-style education for all,” Sir Anthony said.
"Everyone can have the very best teacher and it's
completely personalised; the software you're working with will be with you
throughout your education journey.”
He warned, however, that the new technology would have to
be carefully introduced to avoid “infantilising” pupils and teachers.
As part of robot-led learning, teachers would adopt the
role of “overseers”, monitoring the progress of individual pupils, leading
non-academic activities and providing pastoral support, Sir Anthony said.
The efficiency of automated teaching would also mean that
only 30 per cent of school time will be spent in class.
A contemporary historian who has written biographies of
David Cameron, Tony Blair, John Major and Gordon Brown, Sir Anthony heralds the
new educational era in a book, The Fourth Revolution", due out next year.
“The impact is going to be massive” he said.
“This is beyond anything that we've seen in the
industrial revolution or since with any other new technology.”
The first revolution is understood to consist of learning
the basics of survival - foraging, hunting, growing crops and building
shelters.
The second involved the first organised sharing of
knowledge and the third was marked by the invention of printing.
Automated teaching machines would be “extraordinarily
inspirational”, Sir Anthony said.
"You'll still have the humans there walking around
during school time, but in fact the inspiration in terms of intellectual
excitement will come from the lighting-up of the brain which the machines will
be superbly well-geared for.
"The machines will know what it is that most excites
you and gives you a natural level of challenge that is not too hard or too
easy, but just right for you."
He expected the National Union of Teachers to be
"very alarmed" by the prospect.
"The technology's already beginning to arrive,"
he said. "It's already there on the west coast of the US and it's already
beginning to transform schools.
"I'm expecting this to happen in the next 10 years.
"The great danger is that it takes jobs away, and
for humans beings much of our fulfilment in life comes from the satisfaction of
work.
"If we get the technology wrong it will end up doing
everything for us in the same way that satnavs mean we no longer know how to
read maps."
Experts predict that automated teaching of maths and
science will form the vanguard of machine-led learning, but that sophisticated
algorithms would soon be devised to teach the humanities.
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