For many children, the transition from learning to read to reading to learn is a crucial and sometimes nervewracking milestone. Reading aloud in class is intended to foster fluency and confidence, but ...

Students with learning disabilities (LD) struggle with particular skills like reading, writing, or mathematics and often require additional, individualized support to fill educational gaps. A team of ...

The bell rang, and students started streaming into the classroom in twos and threes. Chatter filled the room as one booming voice shouted directions. Around 60 students gathered for teacher Ian ...

University of Chicago computer scientist Sarah Sebo is programming robots to give empathetic responses and perform nonverbal ...

Robotics are a key part of the Fundi Bots education program and its aim to excite children about science and technology. As a child Solomon King Benge loved Eric Laithwaite’s 1974 book The Engineer in ...

For many people, the future inspires nightmare visions of a "robopocalypse," a time when humans become subjugated by their own creations: robot overlords that possess superior physical and ...

BOSTON – A new study finds kids would prefer to learn from a competent robot rather than an incompetent human. Canadian researchers wanted to see whether young children could consider a robot a better ...

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One of the difficult things that children have to do is to figure out the types of things they can expect from the things in their world. This is actually a complex task. Children have to learn that ...

The North Scott robotics had to squeeze into a small corner of Michele Mess’s art room in the high school. They were barely ...

Researchers in Switzerland have designed a system where children teach robot students how to write, and in the process improve their own handwriting skills. This learning by teaching paradigm, they ...