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You are not a teacher. And from your comments, you have not looked too much in the research about how to teach students. Yes, certain things COULD be automated

You are not a teacher. And from your comments, you have not looked too much in the research about how to teach students. Yes, certain things COULD be automated... at considerable expense to student achievement. One big thing they have found - remove the personal feedback and connection to students --> lose the motivation of students. If a teacher (the same teacher) isn't interacting with a student consistently at nearly every step of the learning process, the feedback doesn't stick and the student loses motivation. It would be interesting to looking to the basic research behind the feedback-achievement connection and stereotype threat to start. Hope that helps you address some of the problems with the automate/delegate solutions so often thrown at teachers.

humanrebar 13y ago
> Yes, certain things COULD be automated... at considerable expense to student achievement. I seriously doubt that letting teachers automatically grade arithmetic tests will hurt student achievement. The fact is that many teachers do that sort of thing at home in what should be considered overtime hours. I would like to hear how automatic grading causes student achievement to suffer. Likewise, I'm skeptical that it should be solely educators' responsibility to make sure chairs are not being thrown out windows. Letting teachers focus on educating and not babysitting seems like a good thing.