Children learn to write by teaching robots

Learning by teaching: Children interacting with a Nao robot that has been programmed with CoWriter. Photo: Computer-Human Interaction in Learning and Instruction.

Learning by teaching: Children interacting with a Nao robot that has been programmed with CoWriter. Photo: Computer-Human Interaction in Learning and Instruction

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 say, could engage unmotivated students as well as boost their self-confidence.