Discuss how
COVID 19 has affected your work, your
learning or teaching.
While COVID might have changed the
project in another direction for,
you know, most of the students, I think it
also gave us an opportunity
to look at a lot of our projects in a
different light. Do you think it's
affected the way that we'll learn and
teach in general
in the future? I would
discourage those who say, "Oh,
look how well it went online, and why
don't we do this
all the time?" There's something that is
missing from being
face to face and interacting with each
other. Does anybody feel like
we could just do away with bricks and
mortar all together?
I was home schooled for basically my
whole education
until I came to college, so personally I
kind of, I don't like the online because
I feel like I have more time, but going
to university is a completely different
experience that I think people need to
have physically.
There's a stereotype that
computer scientists just
sit by themselves at a computer and
write software
all day, and that's not at all what
computer scientists do.
We're social creatures and we do best
when we talk to each other, interact with
each other, and help each other.
So what I'm hearing is, that a robot
can't do computer science.
You need to have heart. You 
need to have like a
a sentient being. The AI person 
is not saying that.
See just that type of question 
is an example
of what our field is about.
Our field is not simply about what a
machine can or cannot
do. It's not simply about
that. It is about who we are
and who we are as humans and
what defines us and what makes us.
No I don't have the answer to whether or
not a robot will
one day be able to teach or not. I am
recognizing
that as human beings that are
interacting with each other, as my
colleague
Dr Sanft has already said, we are social
creatures and recognizing that that's
something that
we need as a society.
