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Domain 05

Robotics and AI

The Barker Institute will undertake projects that will provide research-informed practical advice and guidance to educational practitioners and leaders about Robotics and Artificial Intelligence.

Our Purpose

The aim of these projects will be to provide educational practitioners and leaders with an evidentially-based understanding of issues and topics that will inform the future of education globally.

Rationale

Engaging in educational research on Robotics and Artificial Intelligence (AI) recognises the role they have today and the increasing role they will have in the future.

Research in this domain seeks to anticipate what skills and capabilities students will need, given the current and growing relevance of Robotics and AI throughout the world. They offer an interdisciplinary learning experience, integrating concepts from computer science, engineering, and mathematics with philosophical questions of the changing nature of epistemology, learning, questioning, and truth.

The complex problem-solving and critical thinking involved in the fields of Robotics and AI foster important competencies. These topics, often seen as exciting and innovative, enhance student engagement and motivation in learning. They also raise significant ethical considerations, prompting students to reflect on technology’s societal impact. Furthermore, the potential for innovation in AI and Robotics encourages creativity, inspiring students to devise new ideas or solutions. This research domain will therefore not only seek explore the utlisation of Robotics and AI in education but also investigate how a sustained curiosity and passion for learning can be cultivated amongst students today and into the future.

Research Questions

Potential projects may explore questions such as:

  • How might schools best design learning for students today and into the future so that they will possess the knowledge, skills and dispositions required for individual, collective, and global success?
  • Are our research and innovation systems prepared for an era of global, open and internet-intensive inquiry?
  • How does the inclusion of AI and Robotics in the curriculum impact student engagement and motivation to learn?

Targeted Publications

In addition to disseminating ongoing research in and thinking around intercultural learning and understanding via its website, social media networks, and its journal Learning in Practice, the Barker Institute will work towards publishing its research in this area in such journals as: 

  • International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education: Official Journal of the International AIED Society
  • Asia-Pacific Journal of Futures in Education and Society
  • International Journal of Innovation in Education