Boštjan Resinovič,  Šolski center Celje

ICT is used in education for different purposes: to make concepts more graphical and interesting, simplify procedures, increase productivity and/or motivation, decrease necessary strain … This presentation shows how to use Nao, a humanoid robot, to increase students’ motivation and focus and consequently achieve better effects in learning new material and in knowledge consolidation. To demonstrate the possibilities offered by the usage of a humanoid robot a classical theme in learning foreign languages was chosen, namely English irregular verbs. In order to achieve this a program that enables a robot to recognize any form of an irregular verb and lets it say or spell all three forms, play a prerecorded irregular verbs rap, recite it or stop it after an infinitive to let students give the remaining two forms was written. The program running on the robot helps the teacher to introduce and consolidate new material as well as to grade students and at the same time demonstrates how teachers of different professions can learn from each other and create new educational products, in this case a robot students can learn from.