Human–AI Symbiosis in Educational Communication
A Discursive Mapping of Cyborg Pedagogy and Human Cognition
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https://doi.org/10.21009/communications.8.2.3Keywords:
cyborg, symbiosis, pedagogy, cognition, CommunicationAbstract
In the posthuman situations, the most pressing question today is: What should human be? This question frequently crosses our mind because of the frequent paradigm shift of the pedagogy which is widely believed to have transformative role. Human cognitive process goes through a conspicuous evolutionary process as pedagogy negotiates with the changing of time and the diverse minds of human history. Historicity of pedagogy and the human thought always transform the learners. With the advent of cyber technology, humans have given up the millennium old knowledge acquiring process and intensively collaborated with machines and turned into cyborg. Turning into a cyborg is getting accelerated by human’s increasing dependence on technology. Connectivity between man and machine is so intrinsic and nuanced that man is turning into cyborg because of inescapable interdependence of both these sides. This paper will qualitatively explore human-AI symbiosis process which unprecedently impacts and evolutionizes the present-day pedagogy.
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