One of Apple's co-founders believes that one day students just might be completely learning from computers. He said software that could make computers life-like as well as capable to teaching students and monitoring their progress are not just a pipe dream. The benefit he said is that each student's education would be specialized and individualized to their needs, capabilities and progress.
While, I think that this type of learning may have some benefit, and think it is definitely a possibility going into the future, I also think this would be detrimental to education. Human interaction is an important part of education and socialization, and you just can't get that from a cold, hard computer screen.
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