{"id":1820,"date":"2019-10-01T12:06:21","date_gmt":"2019-10-01T20:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/backseatlinguist.com\/blog\/?p=1820"},"modified":"2019-10-02T08:22:14","modified_gmt":"2019-10-02T16:22:14","slug":"a-reverse-turing-test-is-good-language-teaching-robot-proof","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/backseatlinguist.com\/blog\/a-reverse-turing-test-is-good-language-teaching-robot-proof\/","title":{"rendered":"A Reverse Turing Test: Is Good Language Teaching Robot-Proof?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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To make them easier to find, several items originally included in the now-defunct ‘This Week in Language Teaching’ series are being reposted over the next few weeks.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The always brilliant Gene Glass provides a list of jobs<\/a> that are “0% Automatable” (cannot be done by a robot) and “100% Automatable.” He uses the\u00a0list to examine what schools teach and the future of our economy, but\u00a0it is a question you may want to ask of your own job.<\/p>\n

Robots and computer software can very efficiently\u00a0deliver traditional “drill and kill”\u00a0in language arts, as Frank Smith pointed out<\/a>. A Korean researcher has just discovered that robots\u00a0work wonderfully on mindless (and utterly ineffective<\/a>) tasks like phonemic awareness training<\/a>, and someone in Japan is looking into “pedagogical machines<\/a>.”\u00a0But does it\u00a0take a human mind to provide compelling language input? I think the answer is “yes.”<\/p>\n

Perhaps we need a sort of\u00a0“Reverse\u00a0Turing Test<\/a>” for language teaching: If an observer\u00a0can’t distinguish what you’re doing in the classroom from what a robot can do, you’re probably doing the wrong thing.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

To make them easier to find, several items originally included in the now-defunct ‘This Week in Language Teaching’ series are being reposted over the next few weeks. The always brilliant Gene Glass provides a list of jobs that are “0% Automatable” (cannot be done by a robot) and “100% Automatable.” He uses the\u00a0list to examine […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/backseatlinguist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1820"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/backseatlinguist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/backseatlinguist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/backseatlinguist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/backseatlinguist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1820"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/backseatlinguist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1848,"href":"https:\/\/backseatlinguist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1820\/revisions\/1848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/backseatlinguist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/backseatlinguist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/backseatlinguist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}