{"id":1163,"date":"2010-09-28T17:43:02","date_gmt":"2010-09-28T23:43:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/?p=1163"},"modified":"2014-09-12T12:02:02","modified_gmt":"2014-09-12T18:02:02","slug":"can-computers-take-the-place-of-teachers-cnn-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2010\/09\/28\/can-computers-take-the-place-of-teachers-cnn-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Can computers take the place of teachers? &#8211; CNN.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Approximate Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2010\/OPINION\/09\/26\/mitra.technology.learning\/index.html?hpt=C2\">Can computers take the place of teachers? &#8211; CNN.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"cnn_stryathrtmp\">\n<div class=\"cnnByline\">By<strong> Sugata Mitra<\/strong>, Special to CNN<\/div>\n<div class=\"cnn_strytmstmp\">September 26, 2010 11:48 a.m. EDT<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p>Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer deserves to be.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is a rewording by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tcpd.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">David Thornburg<\/a> of the original <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arthurcclarke.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Arthur C Clarke<\/a> quote (&#8220;Teachers that can be replaced by a machine should be.&#8221;)\u00a0 It&#8217;s pretty good though.<\/p>\n<p>If a teacher feels threatened by a computer &#8211; then that teacher really needs to take a good hard look at what and how they are teaching. being afraid of a computer is OK. No. Wait. That&#8217;s not OK either.<\/p>\n<p>Come on. I mean <em><strong>really<\/strong><\/em>. Computers have been around for a while now &#8211; it&#8217;s time to stop viewing them as new-fangled <em>anything<\/em> and start treating them as tools. We don&#8217;t treat pencils and books that way (<a href=\"http:\/\/pencilintegration.blogspot.com\/2010\/07\/pencil-natives.html\" target=\"_blank\">although it&#8217;s an interesting thought<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>We are rapidly approaching the point where people who don&#8217;t know how to read and send email, look at things on the web (and even find some of them), and do basic word-processing are about as far out of touch with society as people who couldn&#8217;t read in the 1950&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>Computers can not take the place of a GOOD teacher, but they sure can make great tools for them. They probably can take the place of a bad teacher.<\/p>\n<p>That having been said, I&#8217;ll take a mediocre teacher that lets their students use the computer over a mediocre teacher who doesn&#8217;t ANY DAY.<\/p>\n<div class='wp_likes' id='wp_likes_post-1163'><a class='like' href=\"javascript:wp_likes.like(1163);\" title='Like' ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-likes\/images\/like.png\" alt='' border='0'\/><\/a><span class='text'><b>9<\/b> people like this post.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class='like' ><a href=\"javascript:wp_likes.like(1163);\">Like<\/a><\/div>\n<div class='unlike' ><a href=\"javascript:wp_likes.unlike(1163);\">Unlike<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Approximate Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Can computers take the place of teachers? &#8211; CNN.com. By Sugata Mitra, Special to CNN September 26, 2010 11:48 a.m. EDT Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer deserves to be. This is a rewording by David Thornburg &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2010\/09\/28\/can-computers-take-the-place-of-teachers-cnn-com\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[353,9,14,81,24],"tags":[105,41,389,395],"class_list":["post-1163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-2","category-educational-technology","category-general","category-information-technology","category-teaching-learning","tag-computers","tag-education","tag-educational-technology","tag-information-technology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Hsb6-iL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3288,"url":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2013\/03\/10\/cargo-cult-education\/","url_meta":{"origin":1163,"position":0},"title":"Cargo Cult Education","author":"Katrin Becker","date":"March 10, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Evolution of educational technology infographic - Irish Innovation News \u2013 Siliconrepublic.com. 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