Journal # 13

Would avatars make the best teachers? How could someone seriously think they would be? Avatars are a computer representation of your teacher.........not your teacher. Even if you could program the avatar to meet the specific learning styles of the students in your class i think that most people would still be skeptical about what they actually could learn. Dreyfus raises the argument against distance learning which could be raised against avatars. You cant get the hands on learning that you need to master a skill through interaction with an avatar. And with difference learning there is at least some accountability involved. I could easily see myself turning on the computer and pulling up the site with the avatar but not paying any attention to it, so how could that be the best teacher? if students arent going to listen to them they cant be the best teachers....... i think that people need to give more attention to real teachers and how they can improve there techniques than worring about avatars as teachers