<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Robotics is a powerful tool in education and it has gained a notable impact in the field of teaching computer science, engineering, math, physics and similar. As educational robotics laboratories stimulate many different abilities in students, such as problem solving and group working, it is possible to use robotics to promote soft skills as well.</p><p>Soft skills are necessary to complement hard skills to build the 21st century professionalism, so it seems relevant to start promoting these skills as soon as possible. In this paper, we describe a lab for primary and first grade secondary schools in which robotics is employed to train soft skills in an informal context.</p></abstract>

Robotics is a powerful tool in education and it has gained a notable impact in the field of teaching computer science, engineering, math, physics and similar. As educational robotics laboratories stimulate many different abilities in students, such as problem solving and group working, it is possible to use robotics to promote soft skills as well.Soft skills are necessary to complement hard skills to build the 21st century professionalism, so it seems relevant to start promoting these skills as soon as possible. In this paper, we describe a lab for primary and first grade secondary schools in which robotics is employed to train soft skills in an informal context.

Robotics for soft skills training

Research on Education and Media

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Robotics is a powerful tool in education and it has gained a notable impact in the field of teaching computer science, engineering, math, physics and similar....

Robotics for soft skills training

Published Online: Aug 13, 2018

Page range: 20 - 25

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/rem-2017-0010

Keywords
primary school, laboratory

© 2017 Franco Rubinacci et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Robotics for soft skills training

Published Online: Aug 13, 2018

Page range: 20 - 25

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/rem-2017-0010

Keywordsprimary school, laboratory

© 2017 Franco Rubinacci et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Keywords
primary school, laboratory