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Storytelling in education — the use of narrative as a pedagogical tool to engage learners, convey meaning, and support knowledge construction, creativity, and emotional connection. Storytelling is a natural and motivating way for learners to make sense of the world, and it is increasingly combined with technology — including AI and social robots — to create interactive, adaptive narrative experiences. Digital and robot-mediated storytelling can add interactivity, personalization, and embodiment that conventional (paper-based or slide-based) storytelling lacks.

Storytelling is grounded in Motivation, Student Engagement, and constructivist theories of learning. It supports Language Learning, Creativity, Social Emotional Learning, and comprehension. In the AI era, LLM-powered and robot-mediated storytelling enables co-creation, where learners and AI agents build stories together, and interactive narrative that responds to the learner.

How storytelling appears in the wiki's research

  • Robot-mediated storytelling: MotiBo uses a human-like interactive digital storytelling robot, finding significant gains in behavioural and cognitive engagement over paper and PowerPoint methods; RoboBuddy lets teachers create LLM-powered scenario-based storytelling activities from curriculum content.
  • Co-creative narrative HRI: The iCub narrative study explores human-robot co-creation of stories, integrating generative models for contextually appropriate interaction.
  • Narrative and creativity: Storytelling supports Creativity and language development, and is used to enhance motivation and engagement in K 12 settings.
  • Storytelling connects to Student Engagement, Motivation, Creativity, Social Robots, Language Learning, Social Emotional Learning, and Educational Robotics.

    Connected Concepts

  • Student Engagement
  • Motivation
  • Creativity
  • Social Robots
  • Language Learning
  • Social Emotional Learning
  • Educational Robotics
  • Connected Articles

  • Motibo Digital Storytelling Robots Motivation 2026 — MotiBo
  • Robobuddy LLM Social Robots Classroom 2025 — RoboBuddy
  • Icub Humanoid Storytelling LLM Hri 2025 — iCub Narrative HRI
  • Remind Robot Mediated Roleplay Antibullying 2026 — REMind
  • White Wu Robotics AI Education 2026 — Robotics and AI in Education