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Kahn, Ken; Winters, Niall – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2021
Constructionism, long before it had a name, was intimately tied to the field of Artificial Intelligence. Soon after the birth of Logo at BBN, Seymour Papert set up the Logo Group as part of the MIT AI Lab. Logo was based upon Lisp, the first prominent AI programming language. Many early Logo activities involved natural language processing,…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Man Machine Systems, Programming Languages, Programming
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Yueh, Hsiu-Ping; Lin, Weijane; Wang, S.-Chen; Fu, Li-Chen – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2020
Motivated by mixed evidence on the effectiveness of reading companions on children's reading performance, as well as the clear and present need for libraries to conduct literacy education, this study sought to investigate the feasibility of using social robots in library literacy activities and to extract the essential functions of effective…
Descriptors: Robotics, Technology Uses in Education, Reading Instruction, Library Services
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Guggemos, Josef; Seufert, Sabine; Sonderegger, Stefan – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2020
This study investigates the acceptance of social robots by higher education students in the social sciences. Pepper, a humanoid social robot from SoftBank Robotics, provided a sample of its capabilities during a first semester, large-scale, university course, "Introduction to academic writing."From this course, 462 freshmen participated…
Descriptors: Robotics, Technology Uses in Education, Higher Education, Social Sciences