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EDUROBOTICS 2021: Education in & with Robotics to Foster 21st-Century Skills pp 216–229Cite as

Exploring the Use of Educational Robotics in Primary School and Its Possible Place in the Curricula

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Abstract

This paper is a brief review of the literature on the use of educational robotics in primary school. The purpose is to explore the application of robotics and, more specifically, the advantages robotics offers to students, the challenges that arise from its application, and what is its place in the curricula. Educational robotics is an innovative and useful tool. It positively affects critical thinking, computational thinking, problem-solving, algorithmic thinking, creativity, and collaboration. The literature reveals that difficulties arise either at the technical level or due to teachers’ lack of relevant knowledge or the lack of relevant provisions for their effective integration into primary school curricula.

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  • Educational robotics
  • Primary/Elementary school
  • Curriculum

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Notes

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    Researchers propose a model that clarifies the relationship between educational robotics and what they call “inclusive education” [10].

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    Based on the TERECOP program, some exciting projects of European countries that participated (Greece, France, Romania, Italy, Spain) were presented, but which are addressed to age groups beyond primary school [7].

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    Effransia Tzagkaraki, Stamatios Papadakis & Michail Kalogiannakis

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    Dimitris Alimisis

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Tzagkaraki, E., Papadakis, S., Kalogiannakis, M. (2021). Exploring the Use of Educational Robotics in Primary School and Its Possible Place in the Curricula. In: Malvezzi, M., Alimisis, D., Moro, M. (eds) Education in & with Robotics to Foster 21st-Century Skills. EDUROBOTICS 2021. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 982. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-77022-8_19

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