To use the computer as tutee is to tutor the computer;
for that, the student or teacher doing the tutoring must learn to program, to
talk to the computer in a language it understands. The benefits are several.
First, because you can’t teach what you don’t understand, the human tutor will
learn what he or she is trying to teach the computer. Second, by trying to
realize broad teaching goals through software constructed from the narrow
capabilities of computer logic, the human tutor of the computer will learn
something both about how computers work and how his or her own thinking works.
Third, because no expensive predesigned tutor software is necessary, no time is
lost searching for such software and no money spent acquiring it.
