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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."
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Have you considered cultural reasons for your childrens' destructive and violent urges? Maybe it's you who's the cause? And where the HELL do you get off stereotyping nonwhites like that? Koreans are like inanimate objects? WTF dude, in what sort of universe is this acceptable in public?
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
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!
It also has a strange, uncatlike characteristic reaction when you pick it up. It just goes limp until you put it down.
Kind of describes your wife when we're having sex.
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
Look buddy, if your second child's first response to a new stimulus is to destroy it with a screwdriver, then you have problems. If your second child's response to a new stimulus is to destroy it with guns, then you have REAL problems. I'm going to go out on a limb and say the common factor in these defective responses is YOU. Just a quick question: do you live in Arizona? Did you vote for Angle? If so, that answers a hell of a lot of questions right there.
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!