ROBOT TEACHERS! IS IT REALLY HAPPENING

Could robots replace teachers within 10 years? University vice chancellor claims humans will only be classroom assistants in the future

It is believed that the teachers who inspire our children will soon be machines. Within 10 years a technological revolution will sweep aside old notions of education and change the world forever. Schoolteachers will lose their traditional role and effectively one day be little more than classroom assistants. They will remain on hand to set up equipment, help children when necessary and maintain discipline.

But the essential job of teaching the young minds will be completely done by artificially intelligent computers. Everyone will be able to have the very best teacher and it’s completely personalised. The software you’re working with will be with you throughout your educational journey.

It will move at the speed of the learner and adapt themselves to individuals. This is beyond anything seen in the industrial revolution or since with any other new technology. They will listen to the voices of the learners, read their faces and study them in the way gifted teachers study their students. 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.

Sir Anthony Seldon says a leading university vice chancellor says “The technology’s already beginning to arrive. 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. If we get the technology wrong it will end up doing everything for us in the same way that satellite navigation does which means we will no longer know how to read maps.”