Editorial: Educational robotics as a tool to foster 21st century skills

Educational robotics (ER) has gained interest in the last years also because ER is seen as a valuable 15 didactic tool to prepare pupils for digital society and provide them with necessary skills that an 16 active citizenship requires (Alimisis, 2013). Different studies highlighted how can promote 17 acquisition of such computational thinking (CT) literacy general 18 (Atmatzidou & Demetriadis, 2016) well enhance transversal competences problem-19 solving (Gratani et al., 2021), creativity (Yang 2020), communication (Nelson, 2012) 20 collaboration (Gueorguiev 2018). There been several attempts worldwide 21 schools (Kyriazopoulos 2021 present study where simple robot used CT. The authors robot, it 56 works, some activities be implemented educational context CT skills.