Humanoid Robots as Teachers and a Proposed Code of Practice

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ID8072876
AutoresDouglas P Newton (0000-0002-6671-1011, autor correspondente), Lynn D Newton (0000-0001-8419-7127)
Ano2019
Volume4
Data de publicação2019-11-05
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoFrontiers in Education (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 2504-284X • E-ISSN: 2504-284X
EditoraFrontiers Media (PUBLISHER • CH)
DOI10.3389/feduc.2019.00125
OpenAlexW2987517507
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas5
Referências citadas50

This article will discriminate between kinds of robot, point to its burgeoning development and application in the home and workplace, and describe its growing use in the classroom as a teacher. It will describe its potential to support, for instance, language development, social and emotional training (e.g. for children with an autistic spectrum disorder (ASD)), and teaching and assessment, and will review researchers’, teachers’, students’ and parents’ responses to this use. Some of these responses recognise the potential usefulness of humanoid robots, but also show an awareness that digital ‘thought’ (AI) is not the same as human thought (HI), and show some caution about using robots as teachers. This disparity generates problems and dilemmas. These stem from, for example, a lack of discretion in decision-making, a lack of emotion (other than by simulation), a limited creative ability (in the foreseeable future), the nature of AI/HI relationships, ethical/legal matters, and culturally unsuitable programming. These matters point to the need for forethought about robot roles and for a code of practice for teachers who work with them. Derived from the discussion, such a code is proposed. The introduction of robot teachers will have significant implications for teachers’ roles and their professional identity as human teachers move from being often solitary sources of learning to becoming teaching and learning managers who need to provide learning opportunities creatively. The change in teacher identity and the teacher’s roles is described

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