Computers and Education | Computers Cannot Replace Teachers

Vivienne Collinson is a professor at Michigan State University and the author of Reaching Students: Teachers’ Ways of Knowing.

Summary: Computers can be effective tools for helping students learn academic subjects, but young people will always need human teachers to provide moral guidance and foster intellectual growth and social development. Computers provide students with information, but only teachers can teach children to think critically, discriminate among sources of information, and be creative. Computers certainly cannot help students with the...

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