{"id":221,"date":"2023-02-19T11:37:33","date_gmt":"2023-02-19T11:37:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mscde.education.ed.ac.uk\/katemolloy\/?p=221"},"modified":"2023-02-19T11:37:34","modified_gmt":"2023-02-19T11:37:34","slug":"quick-reflections-on-teacherbot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.mscde.education.ed.ac.uk\/katemolloy\/2023\/02\/19\/quick-reflections-on-teacherbot\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick Reflections on Teacherbot"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">*Just publishing this quick additional post to keep track of my own thoughts and reflections*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With a few of the additional readings in this block focusing on the Teacherbot, I wracked my brain to remember where I first encountered this work. I eventually remembered that <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.universityofgalway.ie\/centre-excellence-learning-teaching\/newsevents\/conferences\/2015\/\" target=\"_blank\">S\u00eean Bayne delivered the keynote talk on Teacherbot<\/a> during our department&#8217;s annual symposium in June 2015, just days after I started work at the university, and in higher education in general. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"ose-twitter ose-uid-7dafbe274f14d03b44429d8575be4d58 ose-embedpress-responsive\" style=\"width:600px; height:600px; max-height:600px; max-width:100%; display:inline-block;\" data-embed-type=\"Twitter\"><div class=\"embed-twitter\"><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"600\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Love this quote! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/celt15?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#celt15<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/N5D7Iyd8wD\">pic.twitter.com\/N5D7Iyd8wD<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Kate Molloy (@hey_km) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hey_km\/status\/611820524000428032?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 19, 2015<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Figure 1: Tweet from S\u00eean Bayne&#8217;s CELT 2015 keynote talk on Teacherbot. Full text for clarity: Where does this leave the human teacher? Well, let me quote this dictum. Any teacher who can be replaced by a machine should be! (Bayne, 2015)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While I couldn&#8217;t find the recording of that talk, I did go over the readings, and listened back to a similar talk from the same month: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"ose-youtube ose-uid-56014c17b289b81b1aed428167407aa3 ose-embedpress-responsive\" style=\"width:600px; height:600px; max-height:600px; max-width:100%; display:inline-block;\" data-embed-type=\"Youtube\"><iframe allowFullScreen=\"true\" title=\"Teacherbot: Automated teaching on a MOOC | Si\u00e2n Bayne | EMOOCs 2015\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/naezS2kMTeE?feature=oembed&color=red&rel=0&controls=1&start=&end=&fs=0&iv_load_policy=0&autoplay=0&mute=0&modestbranding=0&cc_load_policy=1&playsinline=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; encrypted-media;accelerometer;autoplay;clipboard-write;gyroscope;picture-in-picture clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Figure 2: Keynote talk delivered by S\u00eean Bayne on Teacherbot at EMOOCs 2015 (Bayne,  2015)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I want to return to this take on automated teaching later in the course, maybe for the assignment. With so much reaction to the current trends in automation, I&#8217;d like to take some time to consider the more creative, and even playful aspects of automation, and the &#8220;pedagogically generative&#8221; benefits they can deliver, even if accidental (Bayne, 2015).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In contrast to the likes of ChatGPT, a teacher-coded automation tool affords quite different possibilities, though they are still susceptible to in-built biases. In the context of the MOOC, the mere presence of the bot probed reflections and considerations clearly linked to the course themes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In my own context, it might be worth exploring a similar approach in my Learning Technologies course. I found the bot fascinating back in 2015, and especially enjoyed the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/oliviataters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">playful<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NRA_Tally\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">powerful nature<\/a> of some of the Twitter bots covered in that talk. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;ve somehow managed to avoid automation in my own teaching career and in my learning technologist role. I&#8217;ve always enjoyed the labour of teaching, even when managing heavy workloads. In higher ed, I have the privilege of teaching very small classes, so it&#8217;s worth considering how I might be able to trial or model some automation to create those &#8220;pedagogically generative&#8221; moments. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>References:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bayne, S. (2015) Teacherbot: interventions in automated teaching, Teaching in Higher Education, 20:4, 455-467, DOI: 10.1080\/13562517.2015.1020783<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bayne, S. (2015) Teacherbot: Automated teaching on a MOOC. Available at: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=naezS2kMTeE (Accessed 19 February 2023).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Molloy, K.\u00a0(2015) [<em>Twitter<\/em>]\u00a019 June.\u00a0Available at: https:\/\/twitter.com\/hey_km\/status\/611820524000428032\u00a0(Accessed:\u00a019 February 2023).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>*Just publishing this quick additional post to keep track of my own thoughts and reflections* With a few of the additional readings in this block focusing on the Teacherbot, I wracked my brain to remember where I first encountered this work. 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