Stephen Downes

Knowledge, Learning, Community

You have to read through to the last section to get to the "one thing computers can't do", and it's this: ""building and foster[ing] meaningful relationships with students." Which, frankly, is silly. Not that we don 't need relationships; we do. But almost every person on earth is capable of providing them. My cats can provide them. And yes, computers will provide them. But even if they couldn't, this hardly seems to me to be the thing teachers should define as essential to the profession. It results in a picture where we're spending a lot of money to give a student a friend, money we could save by having student find their own friends.

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Stephen Downes Stephen Downes, Casselman, Canada
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