https://padlet.com/kdoyle20/fg1hxjh6rohx Post your reflection here. en-us 2019-02-12 21:53:27 UTC 2021-07-19 04:27:07 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f4bb.png calebnickell88 https://padlet.com/kdoyle20/fg1hxjh6rohx/wish/1272414683 The idea of automation taking over the classrooms across our country would have seemed preposterous as little as 10 years ago. With the growth and obvious benefits that technology possesses today that can be supported by the TED talk given by Suguta Mitra we listened to and the article written by Harpreet Purewal, it is easy to see why this is a relevant question today. Having the ability to listen to top tier lectures from the luxury of one's home is without question an inviting idea. However, I believe teaching positions will remain in the hands of humans for an indefinite amount of time. The variety of tools a teacher uses to adapt to various modes of learning each student has does not compare with any computer today. Teachers offer that human to human interaction to connect material to each student. Technologies place in education will continue to grow and grow. The applications and supplements to curriculum that technology can provide to lectures or material makes it seem foolish to not use within a classroom. So will automation take over the classroom? No, not for the long foreseeable future. ]]> 2021-03-05 04:31:20 UTC https://padlet.com/kdoyle20/fg1hxjh6rohx/wish/1272414683 bzo19 https://padlet.com/kdoyle20/fg1hxjh6rohx/wish/1280035444 Technology will not replace teachers, however like Mitra (2010) explained, “a teacher that can be replaces by a machine should be”(Ted, 4:11). What he means by this is that if a teacher is disorganized, arrogant, and lacks compassion, then that teacher should not be a teacher at all. Good teachers cannot be replaced, simply because they do so much more than teach. They nurture, inspire, think on the spot, lead assemblies, take school trips and the list goes on. These are all things that Purewal (2016), explains that machines/technology cannot due. Good teachers will use technology as an expanding tool for instruction.  ]]> 2021-03-08 02:43:56 UTC https://padlet.com/kdoyle20/fg1hxjh6rohx/wish/1280035444 njc51 https://padlet.com/kdoyle20/fg1hxjh6rohx/wish/1576668643 Technology is becoming more and more a part of our world. As Suguta Mitra illustrated in his TED talk, technology is useful in groups where students can interact together. However, there is a huge piece still missing, which I think many of us saw this year with COVID-19 forcing online school. Many students failed without the social interaction of a physical teacher and peers. Technology is important but only to the extent we need to learn to incorporate it in to our lives and schools. Technology cannot replace the human interaction, human connection, or human responsiveness. The article by Harpreet Purewall states, " The act of teaching isn’t just imparting what’s in your head to a captive audience. Teaching is a performance, it’s reading the room and working it. This is where technology really falls short" (2016). Technology cannot replace teachers for the students that need personal interaction and a feeling of value. Technology can never match that. We as teachers know how important the personal relationship is for so many students. Knowing this sets a clear understanding that technology will be a part of teaching, but could never replace the teacher. 
 ]]> 2021-06-01 15:33:37 UTC https://padlet.com/kdoyle20/fg1hxjh6rohx/wish/1576668643 jdn3 https://padlet.com/kdoyle20/fg1hxjh6rohx/wish/1578123129 After watching and listening to the TedTalk from Sugata Mitra, it may seem that technology could eventually take over the classroom, more so than it already has. However, while information can be delivered entirely through technology, teaching goes beyond information delivery. Kids need the support from their educators and school staff during their years of development, and need to learn social and emotional skill, as well as discipline from their instructors. Sure, a student can look up the event that sparked World War I within seconds and memorize the answer, but students are going to have a difficult time looking up the answers for, “how to work collaboratively in a group setting” (although there is likely a three-minute YouTube video for it). Teachers facilitate discovery-based learning, collaborative teamwork, and can provide emotional support for their students. The digital revolution has made many tasks more seamless, but it will be a long while, if ever, before K-12 education is entirely replaced by technology and/or artificial intelligence.]]> 2021-06-02 01:39:32 UTC https://padlet.com/kdoyle20/fg1hxjh6rohx/wish/1578123129 https://padlet.com/kdoyle20/fg1hxjh6rohx/wish/1648050209 The article "Can technology replace teachers?" had a lot of good points by why technology cannot replace teachers in the classroom. One of the major points that was glossed over was the quote: "drop-out rates for these courses are extremely high," (Purewal) the courses being fully online and technology-based taught. That alone could be enough support to back up my answer, but of course there needs to be more. To go further, technology has no humanity, it cannot read between the lines like a human teacher can. If a student is having a bad day, how can a robot determine accommodations for that? Also, technology cannot provide experiences for students to engage in (like field trips), or assess a performance task that involves subjective grading (like an art project). How about a practical issue like a fire drill? How can a robot or technology make sure that the students make their way to the safe zone and adjust if a student is going in the wrong direction? Sure movies depict highly intelligent and physically impressive fantasies of what technology could do, but that is just what they are: fantasies.]]> 2021-07-13 19:26:58 UTC https://padlet.com/kdoyle20/fg1hxjh6rohx/wish/1648050209 mariagutierrez60 https://padlet.com/kdoyle20/fg1hxjh6rohx/wish/1648106035 Technology is growing rapidly throughout the years but I don't believe that it will replace teachers. While watching the TedTalk video from Sugata Mitra I was amazed how the children were using technology to learn English and information they did not know. Students were teaching themselves but there is more to then just learning from a computer. Children need someone to guide them, help them grow, care for them, and teach them new material, just how Sugata did. He gave them a word to look up and quizzed them. If he wouldn't have done this would the students learning goals increase? In the article "Can technology replace teachers? she explains the importance a human can do for a child more than a technology. "The act of teaching isn't just imparting what's in your head to a captive audience. Teaching is a performance, it's reading the room and working it. This is where technology  really falls short. Empathy is a key area of difficulty for technology and automation" (2016). Teachers are able to read if a student is having a hard time understanding the content. They are able to find different ways. They are able to care and help a child grow. Technology will not be able to do this. We are witnesses of the effect technology had on students during the pandemic. Students were not logging in at times, they lost focus, they were missing zoom sessions, and although some were present their minds weren't. Therefore, technology will never replace the caring, motivational, inspiring, love, and grit a teacher gives to a child.

]]> 2021-07-13 20:50:29 UTC https://padlet.com/kdoyle20/fg1hxjh6rohx/wish/1648106035 https://padlet.com/kdoyle20/fg1hxjh6rohx/wish/1649860900 Even though we are advancing into a new technological age, teachers can rest ease as their jobs can not be replaced. Purewal (2016) mentions numerous reasons as to why teachers will always be chosen over technology. One of those reason that I agreed the most with was how "teaching is a performance, its reading the room and working it" (Purewal, 2016). Teachers provide students with an emotional connection that technology can never give them. We have learned through this COVID experience that students need face to face instruction. They need to be able to connect to the material and stay engaged. Purewal (2016) also goes on to say how teachers are able to read the room and adjust as needed. Technology does not have the ability to read emotional context clues (Purewal, 2016). Therefore, it is not able to see if a student is struggling. Which in turn, results in a student falling behind and feeling defeated. Human teachers provide so much more than just instruction to students. They provide care, encouragement, as well as nurture the students. Teachers have many different roles and technology simply can not keep up. Nonetheless, technology can be used to enhance teaching methods, but as for replacing teachers that is not possible. ]]> 2021-07-14 20:44:48 UTC https://padlet.com/kdoyle20/fg1hxjh6rohx/wish/1649860900 https://padlet.com/kdoyle20/fg1hxjh6rohx/wish/1649893513 Both the video and article mentioned how technology could impact student learning. In the video, I learned that technology could help students learn on their own and that although technology cannot replace a good teacher it should replace those teachers that do not love the profession. Sugata (2010) explained how SOLE: Self Organized Learning environments do not need direct intervention from the outside. Students learn best when they work together and have a photographic memory that helps them remember things. I agree with Sugata, students can learn on their own and learn best when they collaborate. However, I do not believe that technology will replace teachers. In one of his experiments, he asked an accountant to help the children learn by using the grandmother method. Her role is to praise the children's work and ask them questions. This method increased students learning by 20%. It tells me that children need a teacher to facilitate instruction. Technology alone is not sufficient; children also need teachers to encourage them to learn. I believe teachers must use technology in their classes and create a student-centered environment where students take charge of their learning. In addition, the article mentioned how although online schools have many benefits, such as flexibility, there are higher dropout rates. Teachers have many vital roles. For instance, they provide pastoral care, direct, recognize and assist vulnerable students, collect data about students' attendance and behavior, and assess student attainment (Purewal, 2016). In addition, the article mentions that technology fails at determining emotional states and the ability to think quickly when teaching (Purewal, 2016). Technology is evolving quickly, and I believe, should be implemented in every classroom to keep up with future generations. However, I think it should be seen and used as a tool to improve student learning. I do not believe that it will replace teachers because teachers do more than just teaching lessons. They create safe and positive learning environments, relationships, and make learning meaningful. 

]]> 2021-07-14 21:42:30 UTC https://padlet.com/kdoyle20/fg1hxjh6rohx/wish/1649893513 https://padlet.com/kdoyle20/fg1hxjh6rohx/wish/1650869879 I am very confident that technology will not be replacing teachers. As shared in the article, teachers do a number of things that no sort of technology can replace. Even with the advancement of artistic intelligence, tit is not a possibility a computer can adapt and be as flexible as a human can be. A teacher serves so many roles. They are leaders, peacemakers, role models, and without them, our world would be a different place. I think about my own experience as a student. There is a vast difference between the online course that never meets and the in class course that meets in person weekly. The experience is different and I feel more is gained when connecting with your teacher and your classmates.]]> 2021-07-15 07:06:21 UTC https://padlet.com/kdoyle20/fg1hxjh6rohx/wish/1650869879 https://padlet.com/kdoyle20/fg1hxjh6rohx/wish/1651514313 Technology will never replace teachers. While we live in a technological era where most of us have a device, technology could not replace the role of a teacher. Technology is a helpful tool that facilitates learning, but it cannot detect emotional states. A classroom is filled with students who all look, act, and think differently. Technology itself is not capable of adapting its behavior to cater accordingly to every student, teachers can. Teachers give that human interactions that students need. In the TedTalk, Sugata Mitra mentions the effectiveness of interacting with each other. Technology allows us to gather information and answer questions that others wise we wouldn’t be able to, however, the retention is much higher when we interact with other individuals, including the teacher. The scores in the experiment failed with using technology on its own. There needs to be physical interactions amongst students in order for them succeed and retain the information. Teachers are also great at thinking on the spot, something technology cannot do. ]]> 2021-07-15 19:00:45 UTC https://padlet.com/kdoyle20/fg1hxjh6rohx/wish/1651514313 https://padlet.com/kdoyle20/fg1hxjh6rohx/wish/1652101766 As we get older it tends to be a lot easier to do everything online. That means going to school online and never actually having to step foot on a campus or in a classroom. However for us, it comes simple because of how we were raised. We were raised in the classroom with a teacher that cared about us. That teacher had actual feelings and was real, unlike a robot on a computer. Having a teacher in the classroom makes teaching personal, where as technology will fail. Also teachers are quicker to think on the spot when things planned failed. You are never guaranteed that what you have planned will go smoothly. Luckily when life does not go as planned, teachers can think on their feet and figure out a plan B. Sadly, when technology fails, there is no plan B until it’s fixed. Technology is constantly failing which only fails our students. During my student teaching at least once a week something was happening with technology which did not allows students to complete assignments. Whether it be internet issues, or websites that were down, my master teacher was able to come up with a plan B ASAP. If students were at home they would think they were done early for the day, and give up. That is why so many std nest drop out when they complete school online.

]]> 2021-07-16 02:43:54 UTC https://padlet.com/kdoyle20/fg1hxjh6rohx/wish/1652101766 25eddiecortez https://padlet.com/kdoyle20/fg1hxjh6rohx/wish/1652997881 The level of sophistication we are seeing in technology, and in particular, the technology being used in the classroom is extremely advanced and makes life incredibly more easy. We are able to do things much quicker today than ever before. For example, taking roll has become easier by a click of a button. There are programs which allow parents to know if theyre child is absent and alerts them based off of what their child's teacher has put him/her down for the day. Khan Academy is another example that can be mentioned to demonstrate the advancement in technology within the classroom today. If a teacher is absent, students can log into this program and complete assignments relating to the unit they are currently working on. with this being said, Technology is great but will never be able to match what a teacher can do. A teacher can identify a struggling student both academically and emotionally. The teacher can provide assistance to those students to help alleviate the situation. A teacher can also relate to certain students going through tough times. there is a human need in the classroom that a robot of some kind can never replace a real teacher.]]> 2021-07-16 21:22:34 UTC https://padlet.com/kdoyle20/fg1hxjh6rohx/wish/1652997881 https://padlet.com/kdoyle20/fg1hxjh6rohx/wish/1653029014 I do not think technology can replace teachers because of the amount of time and effort educators put into making learnings special for their students. Technology can support to teach lessons, however, technology cannot personalize learning for students. There is no way that technology can build connections with students. There is no way technology can get to know students. This past year has taught me that technology is a great tool to implement within lessons, but not a tool to rely on. At times, technology would crash and stop working altogether. Teachers learn to think on the spot and change a lesson if needed. I do not think technology will replace teachers at all. ]]> 2021-07-16 22:35:50 UTC https://padlet.com/kdoyle20/fg1hxjh6rohx/wish/1653029014 https://padlet.com/kdoyle20/fg1hxjh6rohx/wish/1653319627 2021-07-17 12:42:13 UTC https://padlet.com/kdoyle20/fg1hxjh6rohx/wish/1653319627 jillianphampshire https://padlet.com/kdoyle20/fg1hxjh6rohx/wish/1653320369 After watching the video and reading the article, there are some conflicting views on teachers in the classroom.  In the video, The Child-Driven Education, Sugata Mitra stated that there is much research behind child-driven education.  This means that if students are given free range to play with the technology with some educational purpose, they will figure out how it works on their own.  As stated by Mitra himself, “If children have interest, then education happens,” (Mitra, 2010).  I found this very interesting.  I do agree that education should be interesting, but I do not feel as if providing students free range is going to allow them to pick up on everything they need to know to have an education.  After reading the article, Can technology replace teachers? You asked Google- here’s its response,” discusses the importance of difference between technology support and the support from a human being.  I believe that technology cannot replace a real-life teacher in the classroom because of the interaction they provide for the students.  In the article it states that teachers are able to read the room and think on their feet when technology fails us.  I know that there have been many times where my lesson that had technology incorporated in to it was not working and took too much time up trying to fix.  This is when I stepped in to make a change for the benefit of the students.  This is not something that could happen if technology was the main source of knowledge.]]> 2021-07-17 12:44:29 UTC https://padlet.com/kdoyle20/fg1hxjh6rohx/wish/1653320369 https://padlet.com/kdoyle20/fg1hxjh6rohx/wish/1653461191 Your classroom is considered to be a modern classroom if your using technology. The pandemic has accelerated the usage of technology in classrooms, and there is increasing pressure on teachers and administrators to implement technology in classes. Admittedly, there are several advantages of making use of technology in teaching. Technology in the classroom should only serve as a supplemental tool and never replace the teacher. Computers are not good at thinking on the spot or evaluating real human emotions, so there would be a complete disconnect without the presence of trained classroom teachers, either virtually or in-person preferably. According to the article, teaching is considered a "performance". It is referred to as being able the "read the room and work it". This is something a computer cannot do. It can't physically move around and check for understanding and provide immediate feedback or redirection if needed. All of these things require human decisions based on empathy, life experiences, and a to be able to understand a student's plight in order to provide appropriate guidance. 
In fact, the article points out the even online self-paced courses have a high dropout rate, which tells me that remote learning might be ok for some but it's not for all. ]]> 2021-07-17 20:05:19 UTC https://padlet.com/kdoyle20/fg1hxjh6rohx/wish/1653461191 mld121 https://padlet.com/kdoyle20/fg1hxjh6rohx/wish/1653619681 I found it interesting when Mitra mentioned that students would learn what they want to learn. If students are in groups, they will work together to learn how to use technology, regardless of where they are in the world. However, I do not believe technology will replace teachers because technology cannot make accommodations for students or read their emotions. Watching a pre-recorded lesson is not for everyone. It is not a universal strength. Teaching is more than just “teaching students” because it means reading the room, choosing an appropriate pace for students, and supporting where needed. Teachers are empathetic, while technology cannot detect or respond to emotions. Teachers also need to be quick thinkers and problem solvers, and technology cannot make those quick adaptions to problems that could go on during the school day. Like some of my peers mentioned, teachers put a lot of time and effort into planning lessons that will best suit their students. Technology cannot solely support all students. Even with advancements in technology, it cannot replace teachers because teachers are observant, empathetic, and quick thinkers.

]]> 2021-07-18 07:01:07 UTC https://padlet.com/kdoyle20/fg1hxjh6rohx/wish/1653619681 https://padlet.com/kdoyle20/fg1hxjh6rohx/wish/1653772574 I think this topic is interesting to learn about. I never even considered if technology would ever replace teachers. I understand their is online classes and virtual learning but the learning outcome that takes place in an actual classroom is a lot more valuable especially in the younger grades. The video provided discusses how essential it is to have an actual person teach and encourage students and praise them for their effort. Students need that one on one interaction with their teachers and peers. There are many advantages that come from student interaction. Technology will not replace teachers and if it ever did, the outcome may affect the future generations to come. Technology has supported and evolved the way we live life today, but to fully take over the place of a teacher, it would not be effective.]]> 2021-07-18 16:00:04 UTC https://padlet.com/kdoyle20/fg1hxjh6rohx/wish/1653772574 aprilholloway209 https://padlet.com/kdoyle20/fg1hxjh6rohx/wish/1653773969 There is no possible way tech will take over teachers! There is nothing like having emotional support from your teacher just like the video and article have shown. Tech is so important to include in a classroom but in no way can take over. For many people online schooling is a struggle and I really feel its because they don't have a teacher there by their side to encourage them, support them and give first hand examples and explanations. I also believe that people tend to have more respect for teachers. When online school is happening we tend to look at our phones during the lecture rather that if the person was right in front of us. There are so many benefits of having a teacher right in front of you! ]]> 2021-07-18 16:04:30 UTC https://padlet.com/kdoyle20/fg1hxjh6rohx/wish/1653773969 https://padlet.com/kdoyle20/fg1hxjh6rohx/wish/1654334983 While watching the video I was shocked at what the students were able to do by themselves; however, I do not believe that this means that teachers will be replaces by technology. There are tons of stuff that students can learn independently on a device but they're also stuff that only be taught through social interactions. We had a taste of what learning online and independently looks like when the pandemic hit and for most it is hard. For others online learning comes easy, but there needs to be a middle ground which is why some classes still had those social interactions with peers and with classmates. That is because those interactions are what help us view the perspectives of others which allows our knowledge to grow. Technology is only a device that enhances our learning but one cannot learn solely with the use of technology. ]]> 2021-07-19 04:21:42 UTC https://padlet.com/kdoyle20/fg1hxjh6rohx/wish/1654334983