[Edling] Computers are the new foreign language teachers in US schools

[Francis Hult]

Quartz


Computers are the new foreign language teachers in US schools


Rosetta Stone reluctantly took teaching gigs in Maine's classrooms this year.

"We never want to replace someone's job," says Franklin Moomaw, the company's regional director of education in the state. Rosetta Stone's recommendation was for the program to supplement teacher lessons-it's used this way in 4,000 schools in the US.

The thing is, humans didn't want the work. People aren't applying to teach languages, Jay Ketner, world languages specialist for the Maine Department of Education, told the Bangor Daily News.


Full story:
http://qz.com/825803/computers-are-replacing-foreign-language-teachers-in-us-high-schools/

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