Computer Program and Human Teachers

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First, as it is well known, computers are used in teaching and learning with software designed by programmers. Hence, the teaching programs are fixed and limited. They do not contain enough knowledge that students need. The teaching software can provide all students with the same basic knowledge at the same time. However, different students have different intelligence, and their understanding abilities vary from person to person. Therefore, fixed programs can not offer flexible knowledge.

Second, students should be given active knowledge. Teachers who had many years’ education and have abundant teaching experience can provide students with flexible teaching methods which can not be offered by fixed computer programs. The teaching should include various kinds of subject knowledge that reflect active research fields. It needs teachers to diffuse their recent research results into their teaching, which can not be programmed into software.




First, in classrooms, not only do students learn academic contents of different courses, (but) they also learn many other things such as communications skills. For example, some kids who enjoy solitude and prefer to keep things to...
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