Educational Robotics
Sh. Khosravinezhad; Z. Taleb; A. Ahmadi; D. Noroozi
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Background and Objectives:The goal of this study was to examine the impact of assistant robot teacher on improving productive English skills emphasizing on Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) by research synthesis method. The research was applied one; and considering the the way of implementation, ...
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Background and Objectives:The goal of this study was to examine the impact of assistant robot teacher on improving productive English skills emphasizing on Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) by research synthesis method. The research was applied one; and considering the the way of implementation, it was synthesis in qualitative part and semi-experimental in quantitative part. Methods: The research population was 150 students in 10th grade of high schools of Ghazvin in 2018-2019 educational year. This part was done based on 6 steps of synthesis research. The first step was identifying entrance criterions; the type of research was qualitative-quantitative, the geographical domain was all around the world; the year of foreign publications was 2002 and the year for Persian ones was 2015 till now; and the type of document was all theories and approaches of theoretical and review researches published in an authentic book. In second step that was investigating, more than 20 key words were explored by the means of internal and external data bases. The third step was analyzing and the whole text of all books was searched; at the end, 40 books were remained to be tried for the next step. In fourth step that was coding and surveying, the analyzed books were ordered based on the relationship with the research goal. In the fifth step that was evaluation, 14 books were selected for synthesis based on two criterions, quality and relationship. In sixth step that was synthesis, a new model was created and presented. 34 participants were selected by systematic sampling as devoting codes, after implementing diagnostic test and homogenizing the students. The instruments in qualitative part was note taking of related resources, after literature analysis; extracted elements as learning tasks in lesson plan form in relation with productive skills based on 10th book were carried out at 8 sessions. The method in quantitative part was semi-experimental with experimental and control groups. The materials in quantitative part were English tests for assessing productive skills. In quantitative part, lesson plans were taught, one class using robot assistant teacher and the other without using it by holding up pre-test and post-test. For data analysis in quantitative part, independent-samples T test and MANCOVA were used. Findings: The qualitative findings included extracting the elements of CLT in teaching English. The quantitative findings showed that the mean of squares are the same for speaking and writing skills of 10th grade high school students in pre-test for both control and experimental groups, but being different in post-test for both. Conclusion: The results of research in qualitative part leaded to designing Communicative Language Teaching model including 3 main elements of interactional, tools and human ones, and 7 sub-elements including division of labor and object for interactional element, rules and mediating artifacts for tools element and subject and community for human element. The results of quantitative part showed that using assistant robot teacher in teaching English improves productive skills including speaking and writing ones as it is an important step for implementing foreign language teaching approach, which is CLT mentioned and emphasized in the national curriculum being so affective in learning English productive skills.
Educational Robotics
R. Mansouri Gargar; A. Hoseini Khah; M. Alemi; Z. Niknam
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Background and Objective:As widespread changes have occurred in the community, the use of technology has also expanded. To effectively prepare for and cope with evolving of this century we need to design and develop special curricula. Educational robotics is an advanced technology that requires special ...
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Background and Objective:As widespread changes have occurred in the community, the use of technology has also expanded. To effectively prepare for and cope with evolving of this century we need to design and develop special curricula. Educational robotics is an advanced technology that requires special attention. In the past few decades, robotics has attracted the attention of researchers and teachers as a valuable tool in developing cognitive / social skills of students and in supporting the learning of subjects in science, mathematics, language, and technology. There are several important reasons why young students should be exposed to robotics. As our world becomes more and more technologically advanced, students need to early experience so that to feel comfortable with and be aware of technology. In addition, the inclusion of robotics in the school curriculum will help prepare students to enter the job market with technological literacy. Robotics is an attractive approach to technology training due to its interdisciplinary nature, which requires expertise in a wide range of fields from mathematics to aesthetics. This can attract the interest and engagement of students who have not been successful in traditional subject matters. The purpose of this paper is to explain the philosophical orientation and educational robotics foundations at the primary school level so that policymakers, engineers and curriculum developers can formulate curriculum models for implementation. Methods: In this research, educational robotics was analyzed and synthesized using the synthesis research method. Valid documents and research from the last four decades have been selected and categorized using a criterion-based purposive sampling technique. Findings: Synthesis findings indicate that robotics in schools work in two ways as an independent subject and as an educational enabler serving other topics. Logical justification of it is based on constructivist, including epistemological (personal and multidisciplinary), psychological (attention to motivation, creativity and etc.) and sociological foundations (interaction, predictability and etc.). Conclusion: In order to design a curriculum, a planner must first pay attention to the nature of the subject or knowledge and then proceed to develop a plan based on the orientations of the curriculum. Because the subject is robotics training in elementary school, the planner must pay attention to its nature first. The findings of this synthesis showed that robotics can serve in schools at all levels as an independent subject or as an educational enabler in the service of other subjects. Therefore, it is necessary to differentiate between the concepts of robotic training and training robotics. In robotics training, the subject is robot training; but in educational robotics, the robot is considered as a method, tool or technique that is used to teach other subjects.
Educational Robotics
A. Meghdari; M. Alemi; S. Rezaie Zareie
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Instruction has been the most important way of transferring knowledge. Education efficiency is dependent on many different parameters such as education scenario (game scenario designed based on winning strategy), environment condition, the method of interaction with students, etc. Teachers during the ...
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Instruction has been the most important way of transferring knowledge. Education efficiency is dependent on many different parameters such as education scenario (game scenario designed based on winning strategy), environment condition, the method of interaction with students, etc. Teachers during the history have employed many tools like blackboard, books, and educational videos to achieve this goal. Scientists have always tried to design and develop modern and more efficient tools for teachers. Along with the development of technology and advancement of robotics, employing such social virtual robots as an efficient tool for teaching have been proposed. The aim of this paper is to study the effects of using virtual social robots on students' cognition process through a smart approach and a qualitative comparison of the results with conventional methods. Based on the results obtained from different experiments, one may consider this method as a novel approach in education.
Educational Robotics
S. Hossein khani; M. ArbabTafti; Gh. Payganeh
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A virtual reality platform is presented for teaching simple shapes and alphabetic letters to blind students. By using this technology the teacher could be able to present special letters and shapes on a virtual plate. A virtual plate displays shapes and letters that the blind user can “feel” ...
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A virtual reality platform is presented for teaching simple shapes and alphabetic letters to blind students. By using this technology the teacher could be able to present special letters and shapes on a virtual plate. A virtual plate displays shapes and letters that the blind user can “feel” using a haptic robot that display force from the computer to him/her. This method has been tested in a blind school and the result presented in a paper. Results showed that the virtual environment is a useful educational tool for blind students in case of money and time. As the results showed a blind student with a an average IQ can learn the letter or shape by up to 15 times of repetition and after that he/she can write or draw the shape or letter on the paper.