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The robot revolution has been put on hold, saving the increasingly stubborn teachers from having to learn something themselves about the automated machines already in their classrooms, even those AI-assisted learning tools that make all-day kindergarten and large university lectures (and anything in between) nearly obsolete. Once again, maybe this complacency is exactly what the machines coded us to believe.

Equally interested to explore what make a good pedagobot as he is with what counts as good pedagogy, Selwyn ramps up the uncertainty by querying a complex-sounding question in the book title polished down somewhat in the opening chapters to a more manageable yet still shiny inquiry. Lots to say about advancements in actual robots teaching children in Japan, to the point of effectively berating the genki kid to tears.