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A Robot In Every Korean Kindergarten By 2013?

Posted by timothy on from the here-robot-teachers-are-normal-already dept.

kkleiner writes "Elementary school children in Korea in the cities of Masan and Daegu are among the first to be exposed to EngKey, a robotic teacher. The arrival of EngKey to Masan and Daegu is just a small step in the mechanization of Korean classrooms: the Education Ministry wants all 8400 kindergartens in the nation to have robotic instructors by the end of 2013. Plans are already under way to place 830 bots in preschools by year's end. EngKey can hold scripted conversations with students to help them improve their language skills, or a modified version can act as a telepresence tool to allow distant teachers to interact with children."

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  1. Re:This basically means by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Nah. By starting out in Korean classrooms you can more or less guarantee that none of them will be named Sarah Connor.

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  2. Re:This basically means by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Nah. By starting out in Korean classrooms you can more or less guarantee that none of them will be named Sarah Connor.

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