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Taxonomy for Educational Robotics at Schools

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Robotics in Education (RiE 2022)

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With this paper we present a novel Taxonomy of Educational Robotics (TER) based on a set of concrete, though experimental setups of integrating robotics to K-12 school curricula in five countries: Denmark, Germany, Finland, Namibia, and Eritrea. In the era of artificial intelligence (AI) and the fourth industrial revolution (4IR), the expectations from robotics in education are increasing, also in the wider society. The taxonomy illustrates the diversity of ways and approaches robotics can be used in a school context. For practitioners, the taxonomy serves as a map of inspiring opportunities by which robotics can enhance schooling, whether formal, non-formal, or informal.

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  1. University of Southern Denmark, 5230, Odense, Denmark

    Bjarke Kristian Maigaard Kjær Pedersen & Jacob Nielsen

  2. University of Namibia, 10005, Windhoek, Namibia

    Vuyelwa David Ruwodo, Annastasia Shipepe & Lannie Uwu-Khaeb

  3. University of Eastern Finland, 70101, Kuopio, Finland

    Annastasia Shipepe, Samuel Tewelde Yigzaw & Ilkka Jormanainen

  4. University of Turku, 20500, Turku, Finland

    Lannie Uwu-Khaeb & Erkki Sutinen

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  1. Practical Robotics Institute Austria, Vienna, Austria

    Wilfried Lepuschitz

  2. Practical Robotics Institute Austria, Vienna, Wien, Austria

    Munir Merdan

  3. Practical Robotics Institute Austria (PRIA), Vienna, Austria

    Gottfried Koppensteiner

  4. Slovak University of Technology (STU), Bratislava, Slovakia

    Richard Balogh

  5. Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic

    David Obdržálek

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Pedersen, B.K.M.K. et al. (2022). Taxonomy for Educational Robotics at Schools. In: Lepuschitz, W., Merdan, M., Koppensteiner, G., Balogh, R., Obdržálek, D. (eds) Robotics in Education. RiE 2022. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 515. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-12848-6_9

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