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International Conference on Robotics and Education RiE 2017

RiE 2018: Robotics in Education pp 168–174Cite as

Educational Robotics to Support Social Relations at School

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Robotics is a powerful tool to support learning processes and to promote social relations. It gives the possibility to work in team thus stimulating the collaboration among students in a class-group. Therefore also the students who are marginal in the class have the opportunity to take part in group activities, improving social relationships with other students. In this paper we will describe the project “Group activities and social relations at school” proposed to a Middle School. This project foresees the comparison of three experimental conditions: educational robotics lab, coding lab with Scratch and control group. In order to analyze social relations among students, Moreno sociometric test has been employed. Results indicate robotics lab effectiveness in promoting relations at school.

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Acknowledgements

This research has been supported by the EU project CODINC (580362-EPP-1-2016-1-IT-EPPKA3-IPI-SCO-IN) from Erasmus+.

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  1. Department of Humanistic Studies, University of Naples “Federico II”, Naples, Italy

    Federica Truglio, Davide Marocco, Orazio Miglino, Michela Ponticorvo & Franco Rubinacci

  2. Natural and Artificial Cognition Laboratory, University of Naples “Federico II”, Naples, Italy

    Federica Truglio, Davide Marocco, Orazio Miglino, Michela Ponticorvo & Franco Rubinacci

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

    Wilfried Lepuschitz

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

    Munir Merdan

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

    Gottfried Koppensteiner

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

    Richard Balogh

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Truglio, F., Marocco, D., Miglino, O., Ponticorvo, M., Rubinacci, F. (2019). Educational Robotics to Support Social Relations at School. In: Lepuschitz, W., Merdan, M., Koppensteiner, G., Balogh, R., Obdržálek, D. (eds) Robotics in Education. RiE 2018. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 829. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97085-1_17

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