Tes: Let’s never suggest tech could replace teachers
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CENTURY Founder CEO Priya Lakhani has written in teaching magazine Tes to argue that the coronavirus pandemic and its resulting disruption has confirmed that teachers are indispensable. Priya argues that the world’s homeschooling experiment will mean that the debate about whether AI will replace teachers will stop – with technology being used to augment and enhance human teaching instead.
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