Relative Strengths of Teachers and Smart Machines: Towards an Augmented Task Sharing

Michael Burkhard, Sabine Seufert, Josef Guggemos

2021

Abstract

In education, smart machines (e.g., chatbots or social robots) have the potential to support teachers in the classroom in order to improve the quality of teaching. From a teacher's point of view, smart machines also pose a challenge because the presence of smart machines in the classroom questions traditional teacher and student roles. This paper presents a theoretical basis for the use of smart machines in education. It describes the relative strengths of teachers and smart machines and presents them in a framework, which makes a proposal for an augmented task sharing. In light of human augmentation, the framework proposes ways in which teachers can position themselves with regard to smart machines in a complementary and mutually reinforcing way. It also has implications for knowledge that is necessary for teachers to play an active role in the digital transformation.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Burkhard M., Seufert S. and Guggemos J. (2021). Relative Strengths of Teachers and Smart Machines: Towards an Augmented Task Sharing. In Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 1: CSEDU, ISBN 978-989-758-502-9, pages 73-83. DOI: 10.5220/0010370300730083

in Bibtex Style

@conference{csedu21,
author={Michael Burkhard and Sabine Seufert and Josef Guggemos},
title={Relative Strengths of Teachers and Smart Machines: Towards an Augmented Task Sharing},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 1: CSEDU,},
year={2021},
pages={73-83},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0010370300730083},
isbn={978-989-758-502-9},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 1: CSEDU,
TI - Relative Strengths of Teachers and Smart Machines: Towards an Augmented Task Sharing
SN - 978-989-758-502-9
AU - Burkhard M.
AU - Seufert S.
AU - Guggemos J.
PY - 2021
SP - 73
EP - 83
DO - 10.5220/0010370300730083