Education in & with Robotics to Foster 21st-Century Skills

This book includes papers presented at the International Conference "Educational Robotics in the Maker Era - EDUROBOTICS 2020", Online, February 2021. The contributions cover a variety of topics useful for teacher education and for designing learning by making activities for children and youth, with an emphasis on modern low-cost technologies (including block-based programming environments, Do-It-Yourself electronics, 3D printed artifacts, the use of intelligent distributed systems, the IoT technology, and gamification) in formal and informal education settings. This collection of contributions (17 chapters and 2 short papers) provides researchers and practitioners the latest advances in educational robotics in a broader sense focusing on science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics (STEAM) education. Teachers and educators at any school level can find insights and inspirations into how educational robotics can promote technological interest and 21st-century skills: creativity, critical thinking, team working, and problem-solving with special emphasis on new emerging making technologies.

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Section 1 - New developments in Educational robotics

Fostering students' problem-solving skills through educational robotics in primary school

Why educational robotics may support teachers to discover, to develop and to promote students' talent: the GIF4T approach

Robotics Education under COVID-19 Conditions with Educational Modular Robots

Distance Learning in the Era of COVID-19: Supporting Educational Robotics with Augmented Reality

Mendieta, one Robot per School: Multi-user Robot for Technology Education

Children's debugging processes and strategies with a simulated robot: A case study

AI-Robotics and AI literacy

Section 2 - Social robots

The socially assistive robot Daisy Promoting Social Inclu-sion of children with ASD Edu`, a robotic companion in pediatric protective isolation units

Development of a robotic agent for increasing elderlies socialization

Section 3 - Education in and with inclusive robots

Exploiting VR and AR technologies in education and training to Inclusive Robotics

Educational robotics curricula: current trends and shortcomings

Dance & Robots: Designing a Robotics-enhanced project for dance-based STEAM

Education Using ENGINO

Robots entering the care sector The case of a new curriculum for the education of assistant nurses in Sweden

Section 4 - New studies and methodological issues in educational robotics Educational Robotics Acceptance by Italian Teachers, Educators, Psychologists and

Psychotherapists

Teachers' reasons to join a community about educational robotics and STEAM: a Swiss experience

There is no such thing as a "trial and error strategy"

Educational Robotics: School to University, Examples of Interconnected Longitudinal Individual Student Routes

ploring the Use of Educational Robotics in primary school and its possible place in the curricula