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The Future of Early Years in Language Development

In 2015, MIT spent half a million dollars on robots to read stories to pre-school children. The study was to see if a personalized robot could help with early years language development, and thus give the kids the best start in life. In the Netherlands, robot tutors have helped immigrant children integrate better by boosting their skills in Dutch before heading into their new schools. The use of AI in language development is clearly being taken very seriously, all over the world. So why is it seen as being so effective? Personalized and Patient First of all, a robot is endlessly patient. It doesn’t matter how many times the child makes a mistake. A robot will persevere and won’t ever seem fed up or...

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Exploring 3 Tracking Benefits of Educational Robots

Teachers do more than teach: they keep track of student progress every day. How else could they monitor students’ levels of achievement and prepare them for moving up the academic ladder? Although tracking is an essential teaching tool, it can be a formidable task from time to time. Because teachers can get bogged down with daily tasks, like curricular planning, grading student work, and classroom management, they are relieved when they can find ways to make their jobs easier. One way to facilitate teachers’ work is to introduce robotics in every classroom. Tracking with Robots: Importance in Education It has been proposed that robots will become indispensable to educators in the next decade, helping them revolutionize the teaching profession. That being said,...

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5 Ways Robotics Empowers Young Learners

While robotics is all the rage in middle school and high school programs, children can also benefit from educational robots early in life. With robotics and STEAM education (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math), young learners get a head start in a variety of complex topics, ranging from recognizing patterns to language learning. Take a look at these five ways that robotics and STEAM education offer children a competitive advantage from a young age. Pattern Recognition Educational robots bring complex science and engineering into the classroom, in a very tangible way. They offer young learners a way to study complex subjects while starting from simple concepts. Using robotics, students can recognize and program patterns, they can repeat commands, and they can...

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Art in STEAM Learning with Robots

Children engrossed in creative expression have infinite patience. They can draw, color, sculpt or paint for hours. Children become absorbed in their own worlds and muster plenty of patience to sustain those worlds. Adults, not so much. We, adults, tend to worry about spilled paint, and messy walls, and drawing outside the lines. To ensure the A for Art is strongly incorporated into Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Mathematics (STEAM) learning, we impatient adults can delegate out some of that work to robots. Roybi, the breakthrough interactive language acquisition robot designed for little children, is patient. Roybi will listen as your child struggles to solve artistic dilemmas. As Roybi expands capabilities, Roybi will even be able to share ideas and...

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Why Learning from Educational Robots is Helpful in Early Childhood

For quite a few children, language learning and development have always been rather boring subjects. They are too full of technical details to be exciting or fun. For years, teachers have tried various strategies to encourage excitement about learning; however, it’s been proven time and time again that the best way to cultivate this excitement is by using robots. The fact is, robots are naturally exciting and fun for children – of all ages. When they think about robotics, they likely conjure up images of their favorite superheroes or cartoons. When students discover they can actually use robots themselves, it’s a great way to incorporate learning into the curriculum without the students’ losing interest. Today, the use of robotics is...

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