Smart Learning with Educational Robotics: Using Robots to Scaffold Learning Outcomes

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This book will offer ideas on how robots can be used as teachers' assistants to scaffold learning outcomes, where the robot is a learning agent in self-directed learning who can contribute to the development of key competences for today's world through targeted learning - such as engineering thinking, math, physics, computational thinking, etc. starting from pre-school and continuing to a higher education level. Robotization is speeding up at the moment in a variety of dimensions, both through the automation of work, by performing intellectual duties, and by providing support for people in everyday situations. There is increasing political attention, especially in Europe, on educational systems not being able to keep up with such emerging technologies, and efforts to rectify this. This edited volume responds to this attention, and seeks to explore which pedagogical and educational concepts should be included in the learning process so that the use of robots is meaningful from the point of view of knowledge construction, and so that it is safe from the technological and cybersecurity perspective. Front Matter ....Pages i-xxviii Beyond Coding: Back to the Future with Education Robots (Dave Catlin)....Pages 1-41 Educational Robotics for Reducing Early School Leaving from the Perspective of Sustainable Education (Linda Daniela, Raimonds Strods)....Pages 43-61 Towards a Definition of Educational Robotics: A Classification of Tools, Experiences and Assessments (David Scaradozzi, Laura Screpanti, Lorenzo Cesaretti)....Pages 63-92 Introducing Maker Movement in Educational Robotics: Beyond Prefabricated Robots and “Black Boxes” (Dimitris Alimisis, Rene Alimisi, Dimitrios Loukatos, Emmanouil Zoulias)....Pages 93-115 Modbloq. Design of a Modular Robot Made with 3D Printing for Educational Purposes (Pedro de Oro, Silvia Nuere)....Pages 117-147 Robotics in Primary School: A Realistic Mathematics Approach (Francisco Bellas, María Salgado, Teresa F. Blanco, Richard J. Duro)....Pages 149-182 Crab Robot: A Comparative Study Regarding the Use of Robotics in STEM Education (Icleia Santos, Elaine Cristina Grebogy, Luciano Frontino de Medeiros)....Pages 183-198 Innovative Tools for Teaching Marine Robotics, IoT and Control Strategies Since the Primary School (David Scaradozzi, Lorenzo Cesaretti, Laura Screpanti, Daniele Costa, Silvia Zingaretti, Mariantonietta Valzano)....Pages 199-227 Robot Programming to Empower Higher Cognitive Functions in Early Childhood (Maria Chiara Di Lieto, Chiara Pecini, Emanuela Castro, Emanuela Inguaggiato, Francesca Cecchi, Paolo Dario et al.)....Pages 229-250 Activities with Educational Robotics: Research Model and Tools for Evaluation of Progress (Linda Daniela, Raimonds Strods, Ilze France)....Pages 251-266 The Use of Robotics for STEM Education in Primary Schools: Teachers’ Perceptions (Ahmad Khanlari)....Pages 267-278 Using Robots to Introduce First-Year College Students to the Field of Electrical Engineering (Mounir Ben Ghalia)....Pages 279-296 Designing a Competition Robot as a Capstone Project for Electrical and Computer Engineering Students (Samuel Roberts, Joshua Acosta, Salvador Garza, Mounir Ben Ghalia, Heinrich Foltz)....Pages 297-316 Future Class Teachers and Educational Robotics: Current State and Possible Future Use (Ivana Đurđević Babić)....Pages 317-332 EduRobot Taxonomy (Dave Catlin, Martin Kandlhofer, John-John Cabibihan, Julian Angel-Fernandez, Stephanie Holmquist, Andrew Paul Csizmadia)....Pages 333-338 Back Matter ....Pages 339-346