If anyone thinks that the teacher is irreplaceable they’re wrong, there are software able to perform its functions. And while in some schools experiencing a computerized teaching. What are the reasons? What is happening in Australian schools and charter schools in America? What ethical implications? Who will manage the information collected?
The use of robotics
How can you cope with labor costs in the West who can not compete with countries like China or India? Robotizzando, and the process, at least with regard to certain sectors of industry, has already been completed. Volkswagen, for the voice of his human resources director, Horst Neumann, warns that the turn-over in the industry for which they work is finished. Retirements in recent years will not follow new hires.
In place of the workers, the “robot” that allow you to reduce labor costs in Germany that also reach 40 euro an hour, unlike China where the cost can also be less than 10 Euros. Effect of globalization.
A process which, of course, not only invests the economy of scale (now being dismantled in the West), but also the financial field: just think of the ATMs handyman, including payment. A short clerks at the counters will be a distant memory.
It is also the welfare
The welfare is not excluded from this process. And ‘thing to dismantle, revolutionize and enhance: a contradiction which is his second thoughts in light of the socio-economic changes taking place and whose effects will be more visible in the next decade.
‘, for example, written in black and white in the guidelines for the reform of the school Renzi answering that school will be an investment for automation of many processes through the use of ad hoc software will be less need for workers.
These processes, as we said, that relate in particular throughout the West, and that poses problems that will have to be necessarily a matter of debate. Why is the “robotization” of the economy and welfare, can not invest the problem of employment and unemployment.
The development of technology will be able to create as many jobs deleted from robotics? Probably NO, then the states will manage, with fewer and fewer resources, an increasing number of people with low income or no income. But that’s another story.
What happens (RA) to schools?
They can teachers be replaced by software that will run in automatic mode teaching? Yes, indeed, it has already happened. And ‘success in the USA in a Rocketship charter schools in San Jose, the school at the center of many debates for trials of innovative teaching that characterizes it.
Recall that charter schools are schools that receive public money as well as private, are subject to the same rules as public schools, but they benefit from being able to experience greater autonomy in terms of staff and teaching.
So, the teachers of this school receive a salary 20% higher than the average, but they have to manage large classes from 40 to 100 pupils, supported by the use of some software.
Can a software replace a teacher?
One of the software used to Rocketship San Jose is the “Reading Eggs” which serves the purpose of enhancing the interest in reading involving children through online games and various other activities.
This is a “gamification” that through the achievement of levels and the awarding of prizes (the golden eggs) and various gratifications, allows you to motivate your child to read.
The software has set 120 lessons for children between 3 and 7 years, but is constantly evolving and promises of further upgrades. With this system, we are witnessing a full automation of the process of strengthening the reading that replaces some of the tasks of teachers.
In addition, the software on the market that point to a digitization of the teaching are and will become more and more able to personalize the educational process, analyzing the results of the pupils and proposing changes in automatic increasingly tailored to the needs of the individual student. The teacher, in this type of activity, it becomes a mediator between the software and the pupil.
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Software that assess the place of teachers
We move to Australia, where the economic crisis has bitten less and the digitizing process are at an advanced stage. For example, it was recently launched the first fully digital hospital and the “Department of Education” launched the NAP (National Program of Assessment Online.)
The system used for the NAP is called “Improve” and provides a battery of exercises and tests which is constantly updated and can be administered to students for verification. The system allows you to instantly measure student achievement by providing the same diagnostic information on the tasks for which you have mastered and those for which you need an upgrade. In addition, parents can review the test results of the children and take steps according to the indications given by the teachers in case of need of recovery.
Technology panacea for all ills? School crisis or poverty?
This will be the model “Western” education in the near future? The time will give us the answers. What is certain is that the debate between those who want to transform teachers into mere “cultural mediators” and others recriminations still teaching essential action, as trasmissori of knowledge, it is the order of the day. Debate that I certainly do not bring it here, Ariadne’s thread is another.
We go back to school Rockesship. They work in an area with a high percentage of low-income families and have as main purpose to allow their children equal opportunities with respect to wealthy families.
Mission accomplished? According to statistical data, yes. In fact, between 2009 and 2012 the proportion of pupils who achieved satisfactory results in mathematics, science and reading has increased from 73% to 88%. An answer to those who argue that in the USA there is an educational emergency, sanctioned by the decline in student achievement in OECD-PISA, but an economic and social disaster, as evidenced by the “bad results” concentrated in schools in which 50 % of students receive grants for free meals. School crisis or poverty that is also reflected in student performance? The American government has no doubt and not retreat in investment promised for broadband and tablets, the solution must be found in the methods of teaching, along the line he wants the school as an engine of the third industrial revolution.
Principle embraced also by the Italian political class, though with a budget that clashes with the lack of control over public debt and consequently the ability to invest. Italy is likely to hear the distant sound of this third revolution, if it ever materializes.
The management of information, “black gold” of the twenty-first century
Last question (for reasons of space). Computerization of the education system raises issues of no small importance, beyond the role of the teacher. In fact, everything can be done only through the intermediary of individuals who will manage the development of software. Thanks to the software, in fact, you can get the information about the way the school, the skills achieved, the difficulties highlighted, any learning disorders etc. In practice, you can recreate the complete profile of each person from his first steps in literacy. Who will manage such a huge amount of data collected for each student? What use you will make of this information?
Irrespective of the answers that the future return on the real impact of technology on education and on our lives, there is a fact that will be incontrovertible: the trend of the stock manufacturers of hardware and software.
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