Orchestration of Robotic Activities in Classrooms: Challenges and Opportunities

Shahmoradi, Sina; Olsen, Jennifer K.; Håklev, Stian; Johal, Wafa; Norman, Utku; Nasir, Jauwairia; Dillenbourg, Pierre

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“…Several scenarios were described but often the social drone was envisioned to be used in a tutorial/ workshop kind of setting rather than individual learning or Frontiers in Robotics and AI frontiersin.org classroom lecturing. This is an interesting aspect as the classroom orchestration and the teacher cognitive load managing group work needs to be taken into account when introducing technologies for the classroom Shahmoradi et al (2019).…”

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Envisioning social drones in education

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Education is one of the major application fields in social Human-Robot Interaction. Several forms of social robots have been explored to engage and assist students in the classroom environment, from full-bodied humanoid robots to tabletop robot companions, but flying robots have been left unexplored in this context. In this paper, we present seven online remote workshops conducted with 20 participants to investigate the application area of Education in the Human-Drone Interaction domain; particularly focusing on what roles a social drone could fulfill in a classroom, how it would interact with students, teachers and its environment, what it could look like, and what would specifically differ from other types of social robots used in education. In the workshops we used online collaboration tools, supported by a sketch artist, to help envision a social drone in a classroom. The results revealed several design implications for the roles and capabilities of a social drone, in addition to promising research directions for the development and design in the novel area of drones in education.

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“…Cellulo robots have been used for collaborative learning [2,8,11,13] and classroom orchestration [17] in the past. Some first work on the analysis of Cellulo robots' localisation logs seem to be very relevant for learning analytics [10].…”

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Proceedings of the 31st Australian Conference on Human-Computer-Interaction

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While digital tools are more and more used in classrooms, teachers' common practice remains to use photocopied paper documents to share and collect learning exercises from their students. With the Tangible e-Ink Paper (TIP) system, we aim to explore the use of tangible manipulatives interacting with paper sheets as a bridge between digital and paper traces of learning. Featuring an e-Ink display, a paper-based localisation system and a wireless connection, TIPs are envisioned to be used as a versatile tool across various curriculum activities. In this paper, we present the design principles of TIPs and a first functional prototype. We conclude by presenting future works in the evaluation of TIPs as a distributed sensor for teachers in their classroom, including learning scenario examples to illustrate our statements.

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“…Rather, the research has addressed teacher needs through teacher training [1], educational materials [1], or having enough hardware/software equipment [1,10]. However, a greater possibility of technical failures and difficulties of controlling the technology may be the main reasons behind teachers' challenges with robotic activities [16]. Considering this research, the gap in teacher-focused ER works is studying teachers' orchestration needs based on real teachers' behaviours.…”

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“…Although these components provide a universal framework for orchestration literature, within each learning context, how these components are enacted needs to be adapted to the specific context. Looking at the context of robotic activities, robots have three important features that impact the orchestration support needed for real-time adaptation and management during class-time: 1) Robots are table-top physical objects; 2) They are complex technologies for teachers compared to other technologies in classroom; and 3) They are almost always used in face-to-face classrooms [16]. Previous research in similar contexts have developed classroom orchestration tools for teacher support [4,11].…”

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What Teachers Need for Orchestrating Robotic Classrooms

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Addressing Global Challenges and Quality Education

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Educational Robots are gaining popularity in classrooms but can increase the load on teachers compared to the use of more traditional technologies. Providing support to teachers can make teachers confident in including robots in their teaching routines. In order to support teachers in managing robotic activities in the classroom, it is important to first understand the challenges they face when engaging with these activities. To investigate these challenges, we observed three teachers managing robotic activities across fifteen standard school sessions, followed by retrospective interviews. In these sessions, students performed group activities on assembling and programming different robotic platforms. The results highlight a) how managing the additional technical complexity of the robotic activity is challenging for teachers b) teachers interventions focus on supporting students make connections between their programs and their robot behaviour in the real-world. Building on our results, we discuss how orchestration tools may be designed to help alleviate teachers challenges and support teachers interventions in robotic classrooms.

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Orchestration of Robotic Activities in Classrooms: Challenges and Opportunities

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