Educational Robotics and Beyond: Design and Evaluation
Papers from the AAAI Spring Symposium
Emily Hamner, Tom Lauwers, and Kristen Stubbs, Cochairs
Technical Report SS-10-03
68 pp., $25.00
ISBN 978-1-57735-457-4
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For over twenty years, robots, electronics, microcontrollers, and other physically instantiated devices have been used as educational tools in both formal (in-school) and informal (out-of-school) settings. Particularly at the high school and undergraduate levels, these tools have been used to enhance computer science education and illustrate artificial intelligence concepts. In the last several years, a number of programs have been developed which use physically instantiated devices to promote learning in a wider variety of topics, including science, engineering, math, as well as storytelling, sculpture, and other art forms.
This symposium had two aims: to showcase recent exciting designs for education using robots and other technologies — new hardware, software, and curricula that span a wide variety of educational topics and settings; and focus on the difficult problem of how to evaluate the effects on our students of these new innovations and interventions.