is not a strong disjunction, where you must decide on the truth of p -humanizing technology q-o-technologized the human, the question is rather a weak disjunction, which supports the possibility that p and q are true together. But beyond the logic, I confess that this was the question that popped into my mind when watching this video I add here below.
Put a human face to the robot's video can be a symptom of humanization of technology, as to the teacher next to the robot represent a symptom of the technological process of human. Both ideas admissible. But far from being a Manichean, the contents of the video demonstrates the sociocultural process that prints the current technology to education, and technology education.
Engkey This is a robot developed by the Korea Institute of Science of Technology (KIST) for teaching English, which justifies the western face of robot-teacher. The robot is part of the pilot program implemented in 21 elementary schools in Daegu, South Korea. According to the press , the 29 robots of about one meter high, are controlled remotely by teachers of English in the Philippines.
Besides being cheaper to hire Filipino teachers, labor outsourcing, and "materialize" as the robot, the project has the impression of two advantages of this system as RWWES : "First, stimulation of children to be before something that is attractive as a technology. The second, which reduces the barrier of participation in class that raises the fear of educators. "
These benefits are to be validated, no doubt, but no exclusion ... is not the introduction of a robot, but a remote teacher or the machine is sophisticated, but the technological response to a need.
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