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A Robot In Every Korean Kindergarten By 2013?
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."
Destroying a robot with a screwdriver is destructive. Using it for target practice is violent. Deal with it, long-nose.
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
Don't forget the practice of disabling amputation known euphemistically as "declawing" - performed despite cats being able to learn quite quickly how relatively unprotected our skin is (doesn't mean it won't scratch sometimes, still, when provoked...so don't do that) and able, mostly, to adopt a dedicated surface for claws sharpening. And despite how the procedure actually doubles the rates of abandonment.
(^fits with how that place is also enthusiastic about adhd/ritalin/etc.; doesn't make it a shining example in this discussion)
One that hath name thou can not otter