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Helpful and Humanoid: Social Robots in the Classroom

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Sharon Aschaiek

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As educators in science, technology, engineering, art, and math (STEAM) prepare their students for modern life, research developments in the STEAM domain may impact not only what they teach, but how they teach.

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Humanoid robots—assistive technology with human-like characteristics and functions—were found to be a powerful teaching tool in “User Evaluation of Social Robots as a Tool in One-to-One Instructional Settings for Students with Learning Disabilities,” a study conducted at the Learning Disabilities Society (LDS) in Vancouver.

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