Will AI Replace Teachers in the Classroom?

By Jung Chan-hee, Bopyeong Elementary School

 

These days, artificial intelligence (AI) is used in many ways to enhance people's lives. The development of AI has significantly changed the way teachers teach students in classrooms. Although AI can bring many advantages to the classroom, I believe that it cannot fully replace teachers.

Firstly, even though AI can provide limitless knowledge and information compared to human teachers, AI’s lack of emotional understanding of students prevents it from teaching in the same way as human teachers do. Imparting accurate knowledge to students is important, but educating students is more than that. In classrooms, the teachers’ continuous emotional support and strong connections with students help them to grow as people. AI will never be able to mimic how human teachers understand students and give emotional support.

Secondly, teachers can adapt and change their teaching methods more effectively and quickly to meet the needs of individual students. Students are different from one another. So, teachers can adjust and provide personalized learning experiences depending on each student’s needs, capacity, and pace of learning. However, AI only uses its data and statistics to provide learning materials to students, so it often fails to read between the lines. This makes it hard to identify gaps of understanding in students.

In conclusion, I strongly believe that AI cannot replace human teachers because it does not have the capabilities to emotionally support and understand students and is unable to meet students’ emotional needs in classrooms. Therefore, teacher will not be replaced by AI in the classroom.