So find a new best friend who is a computer geek to be your tech tutor, or sign up for a course.

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Bina48 is there to challenge senior learning executives: could a humanoid robot be a teacher or personal tutor by the end of the next decade?

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For example, if cell phones, televisions or even the computer itself easily distract your child, those distractions may be more prevalent if a tutor is not physically present.

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And as they improve, the machine-based tutoring technologies will become good enough for those who could or would have paid full price or changed up their schedule to connect with a human tutor, such that machine-based tutoring may well be the norm for many of us as a prime mode of learning in the future.

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Figuring the brain's capability could be applied to a kid on the autism spectrum, O'Dell began to tutor Jacob ten hours a day at their home in Rabun Gap, Ga.

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Some will continue to play this role, but the majority will not, as there should be a flourishing of roles for teachers, from mentors to content experts that help tutor to those that focus on non-academic problems.

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"The tutor of this course estimates that if a stronger mathematics background could be assumed for the cohort then this module could be shortened, " it adds.

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