ANSWERS TO AUTOMATION

COMPUTERS are an integral part of classrooms in the modernday.

However, school teachers are among the top 10 least likely jobs to succumb to technology, with a 4 per cent chance of being automated in the next 20 years, PwC reports.

Shai McLady, a Year 1 teacher at Brisbane’s St Peter’s Catholic Primary School, says technology such as tablets are essential tools for creative learning.

She says teachers also need to prepare students for a world in which science, technology, engineering and mathematics will be increasingly important.

But students need to develop a bond with their teacher to learn effectively, which can only develop with a human, she says.

“A child can’t bond with a computer that’s teaching them,” she says.

“I got into the profession because I was inspired by teachers who prepared me for the world I was going into.”