Oct 23 2012: If there were no need for teachers we would have been fine with just textbooks. Actually, there are many that acquire superb knowledge simply reading. A teacher offers more.
Now, do I believe that teachers that teach simply lecturing at the front of a classroom is doomed...yes. The way one teaches and presents material is forever changed.. The new wave, I believe, will be the hybrid/flipped classroom. I also see publishers creating material and faculty lazily using that material with no content of their own. In the end I foresee many class facilitator with a single content expert behind them reducing the total number of content experts needed in a teaching profession.
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Now, do I believe that teachers that teach simply lecturing at the front of a classroom is doomed...yes. The way one teaches and presents material is forever changed.. The new wave, I believe, will be the hybrid/flipped classroom. I also see publishers creating material and faculty lazily using that material with no content of their own. In the end I foresee many class facilitator with a single content expert behind them reducing the total number of content experts needed in a teaching profession.
In the end teachers will always teach.