Learning and teaching with robots could help teachers to free up time on simple, repetitive tasks, and provide scaffolding to learners. Robot teachers offer opportunities but also challenges for teachers. With robots supporting or performing teaching, human teachers will need to reflect and adjust their capabilities and roles to maximise the benefits while minimising the detriments of learning and teaching with robots. Human teachers will need training to collaborate with robot teachers in the classroom. This should be informed by research on pedagogies including robot teachers (robotagogy).
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