Educational Robotics and Inclusivity in Education

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Full reference

Wallace Manolis, Demetroulis Emmanouil A., Poulopoulos Vassilis and Togia Evi, Educational Robotics and Inclusivity in Education, SpicE International Conference on Inclusive STEAM Education, Patras, Greece, 30-31 May, 2025.

Abstract

Educational Robotics is conventionally employed in order to convey science and technology concepts in an applied manner via the co-development of small-scale projects by groups of students. But this is limiting and excluding for some students in a variety of ways, some of which being that only some of the students get to be involved in the projects, even fewer have leading/core roles and introvert students or students with less developed collaboration skills are most often excluded. As a response, herein we summarize an alternative way to teach educational robotics. This proposed approach addresses the exclusion of said students not only during the specific class but also more generally, by fostering the growth of their yet underdeveloped collaboration skills.