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Educational Robots and Flow Experience

Achieving the state of flow as the optimal experience is known to influence general personal well-being, help the learning process and improve solidarity with others, to name only a few of the many benefits of flow. Thus, educators often strive to have their students reach the state of flow in the classroom. The authors of this paper argue that working with educational robots can be a flow-inducing activity as it resembles structured play, and such play is one of the ways to achieve flow. The aim of the present study was to test flow-proneness and flow experience in extracurricular workshops on robotics. For this purpose, 37 early and middle adolescents involved in extracurricular robotics completed an online questionnaire on their flow-proneness and flow. The results show that the participants are both prone to experience flow in robotics and that they do experience it while working with educational robots. In the discussion the authors portray ways in which a teacher can help create a classroom environment in a robotics class that may help the learners reach the state of flow.

flow ; educational robots ; extracurricular activities

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