Experts tell us many jobs will be done by robots instead of by humans. When? Very soon. It’s already begun. Bank tellers have been replaced to a large degree by ATMs and soon even financial analysts will see their jobs go to artificial intelligence. Most finance firms already use AI to make stock predictions at a fraction of the cost of doing it with humans.
The discovery part of a lawyer’s job can be handled by AIs dozens of times faster, thousands of financial reports are already written by AIs today, medical diagnostics can be done with expert systems 30 times faster than by human doctors and these diagnostics are 99% accurate.
We’ll be exploring teaching in the Robot Age and its many corollaries in future articles but for now let’s jump in right away and have your students consider a practical application with ethical consequences you can debate in French class: Driverless cars and the need they will have to make moral judgements in emergency situations.
Planet French takes a look at scenarios in which a car with failed brakes must “decide” on different behaviours, each choice loaded with consequences. How would your students, as the car’s programmers, code the car to behave?
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3 levels of difficulty: We offer different levels in the same books, online eBooks, including CEFR levels as well as our own colour-coded easy to use language level scale. This gives students stretch goals and revision opportunities.
This Planet French innovation works. It ties in with the best concepts discussed by Russian scientist Lev Vygotsky and others: successive approximation and the zone of “proximal development”. I know some of Vygotsky’s ideas are controversial but this one works (see teacher reviews video). French is a skill and these kits/units work in schools across the country.
French teachers love this, as they discuss using the kits in our preview video (fill the form on the right to access our secure demo video section and watch free previews including teachers explaining how they used booksmarts/Planet French kits/units).
Here are 3 pages showing examples of the colour-coded 3 levels of difficulty. Each of our kits includes texts and videos at different levels of difficulty so you can use each kit at different levels and quickly apply differentiated instruction.
