Today’s rough set of notes that focus on teacherbots and artificial intelligence in education
- Chatbots: One of the technologies that’s mesmerized silicon valley
- Humans have long promised future lives enhanced by machines
- Many proponents highlight the qualities of bots vis-a-vis teachers
- personal
- personalized
- monitoring & nudging
- can give reliable feedback
- don’t get tired
- etc etc
- Knewton: Algos to complement and support teacher (sidenote: as if anyone will be forthright about aiming to replace teachers… except perhaps this book that playfully states that “coaches (once called teachers)” will cooperate with AI)
- Genetics with Jean: bots with affect-sensing functionality, ie software that detects students’ affective states and responds accordingly
- Driveleress Ed-Tech: Robots aren’t going to march in for jobs; it’s the corporations and the systems that support them that enable that to happen.
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