MULTIMODAL ROBOTS AS EDUCATIONAL TOOLS IN PRIMARY AND LOWER SECONDARY EDUCATION

Abstract

Multimodal humanoid robots have been used as educational tools in primary and lower secondary schools. The pupils involved were between 11 and 16 years old. The learning goals included: programming, language learning, ethics, technology and mathematics, e.g. practised by 7th grade pupils who programmed the robots and made the robots recite poems about the future. We conducted workshops for the teachers in didactical planning and programming of the robots. In the most successful settings, the pupils worked with academic objectives beyond programming and robotics. Through examples, we highlighted the potentials and the shortcomings in multimodal-robot-supported learning.