Robots Wheel Around Classrooms Teaching South Korean Students. (2011). Education Week, 30(18), 8. Retrieved from EBSCOhost.
"Robots Wheel Around Classrooms Teaching South Korean Students" is an article about remote controlled robots teaching English. 29 different robots were able to interact with children, from reading books, dancing to music and talking to students. The robots themselves are a meter high and has a TV designed face. They display a white female teacher that reacts to the Filipino teachers' expressions. They state that it is cheaper and useful to use. The kids enjoy the robot teachers' because they are cute and interesting. The children seem more comfortable to communicate to the "teacher" because it is not a "really" teacher. They cost around 8,700 dollars, but in America, they don't think that they are that far advanced.
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