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Will teachers be the next Dinosaurs

Will the teachers become obsolete This question was never more relevant than today Technology is redefining educational space in a major way It has changed the teaching learning environment in some fundamental ways Technology for example has decentralized the knowledge in the sense that it does not emanate from the twin sources textbook or teachers anymore Rather knowledge is accessible to anyone and everyone who has the technology This has implications on the process of knowledge transfer The internet revolution has brought the world of knowledge on everyone's fingertips If one wants to know something they don t go searching a teacher or a knowledgeable people Google knows it all everyone believes The delivery mediums and platforms including computers laptops tabs brought about many more interesting ways of learning A teacher may tell one way here they have a variety of them in the form of multimedia audio visual animation simulations and others Learning was never as engaging and teac kiher is no longer indispensable The coming of mobile and particularly the Artificial Intelligence AI makes it possible to do a number of routine educational chores much more efficiently than a teacher can ever do In fact some of the learning algorithms that AI has come up with is humanly impossible to replicate The deep learning allows us to discern learning patterns in students and offer adaptive learning solutions in a personalised manner 



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