Authors:
Michael Burkhard
;
Sabine Seufert
and
Josef Guggemos
Affiliation:
Institute for Educational Management and Technologies, University of St. Gallen, St. Jakob-Strasse 21, 9000 St. Gallen, Switzerland
Keyword(s):
Education, Human Augmentation, Comparative Advantage, Role of the Teacher, Smart Machine, Social Robot, Chatbot.
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.