From Didachography to AI: Metaphors Teaching is Automated by
Although automation is not a novelty, high hopes are currently pinned on more and more ingenious devices built with Artificial Intelligence (AI). AI has become a key discussion point in the agendas of governments and multinational agencies, with particular interest in educational applications. This...
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| author | Giselle Martins dos Santos Ferreira Márcio Silveira Lemgruber Thiago Leite Cabrera |
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| description | Although automation is not a novelty, high hopes are currently pinned on more and more ingenious devices built with Artificial Intelligence (AI). AI has become a key discussion point in the agendas of governments and multinational agencies, with particular interest in educational applications. This article explores parallels between ideas surrounding AI in education and conceptions proposed in the 17th century by Jan Amos Comenius, known as the father of modern education. Drawing upon illustrations from ongoing research that takes metaphor as its core analytical category, the piece assumes that metaphors are not mere stylistic elements, but strategic persuasive devices. Comenius’ dachography, a portmanteau coined in his 1657 Didactica Magna to describe an inclusive educational system, relies heavily on metaphors that suggest remarkable similarities with contemporary EdTech rhetoric, especially on AI-related developments. Whilst exemplifying that ideas and premises entailed in current discourses on EdTech may hark back to centuries-old ideas, the paper argues that, despite taking on varying, contextually situated linguistic expressions, underlying metaphors appear to have endured from Comenius’ time to support the advent of an educational system poised to automate teaching and, thus, dispense with a key part of his scheme: the teacher. In closing, the piece suggests that we may need to acknowledge the contingent nature of teaching and learning, perhaps accepting that key aspects of what makes us human may always resist engineering. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-105cf688f24a48c08d2848f0ee5cd51d2023-04-17T07:09:46ZengUbiquity PressJournal of Interactive Media in Education1365-893X2023-03-01202313310.5334/jime.798274From Didachography to AI: Metaphors Teaching is Automated byGiselle Martins dos Santos Ferreira0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8498-5390Márcio Silveira Lemgruber1https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9269-5695Thiago Leite Cabrera2https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2841-3870PUC-RioUFJFPUC-RioAlthough automation is not a novelty, high hopes are currently pinned on more and more ingenious devices built with Artificial Intelligence (AI). AI has become a key discussion point in the agendas of governments and multinational agencies, with particular interest in educational applications. This article explores parallels between ideas surrounding AI in education and conceptions proposed in the 17th century by Jan Amos Comenius, known as the father of modern education. Drawing upon illustrations from ongoing research that takes metaphor as its core analytical category, the piece assumes that metaphors are not mere stylistic elements, but strategic persuasive devices. Comenius’ dachography, a portmanteau coined in his 1657 Didactica Magna to describe an inclusive educational system, relies heavily on metaphors that suggest remarkable similarities with contemporary EdTech rhetoric, especially on AI-related developments. Whilst exemplifying that ideas and premises entailed in current discourses on EdTech may hark back to centuries-old ideas, the paper argues that, despite taking on varying, contextually situated linguistic expressions, underlying metaphors appear to have endured from Comenius’ time to support the advent of an educational system poised to automate teaching and, thus, dispense with a key part of his scheme: the teacher. In closing, the piece suggests that we may need to acknowledge the contingent nature of teaching and learning, perhaps accepting that key aspects of what makes us human may always resist engineering.https://account.jime.open.ac.uk/index.php/up-j-jime/article/view/798metaphors in educationautomation in educationhistory of educationhistory of educational technologycritical educational technologycomenius |
| spellingShingle | Giselle Martins dos Santos Ferreira Márcio Silveira Lemgruber Thiago Leite Cabrera From Didachography to AI: Metaphors Teaching is Automated by Journal of Interactive Media in Education metaphors in education automation in education history of education history of educational technology critical educational technology comenius |
| title | From Didachography to AI: Metaphors Teaching is Automated by |
| title_full | From Didachography to AI: Metaphors Teaching is Automated by |
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| title_full_unstemmed | From Didachography to AI: Metaphors Teaching is Automated by |
| title_short | From Didachography to AI: Metaphors Teaching is Automated by |
| title_sort | from didachography to ai metaphors teaching is automated by |
| topic | metaphors in education automation in education history of education history of educational technology critical educational technology comenius |
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