scholarly journals An Artificial Intelligence Tool for Accessible Science Education

2021 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Jacob D. Watters ◽  
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April Hill ◽  
Melissa Weinrich ◽  
Cary Supalo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Science Education ◽  
Modern Science ◽  
Laboratory Work ◽  
Raspberry Pi ◽  
Virtual Lab ◽  
Full Participation ◽  
Hands On ◽  
Voice Control ◽  
Amazon Web Services

One of the most important issues in accessible science education is creating a laboratory workspace accessible to blind students or students with visual impairments (VI). Although these students are often provided access to the science lectures, they are usually denied full participation in hands-on laboratory work. Current solutions to this problem focus on providing special accommodations such as asking sighted lab partners to complete the hands-on work. Although the accessibility of laboratory devices in modern science education has been improved in recent years, students with VI often remain passive learners. In this work, we developed a new artificial intelligence tool, the MSU Denver Virtual Lab Assistant (VLA), using Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon Alexa Skills Kit (ASK), Alexa smart speaker, and a microcontroller (Raspberry Pi). The VLA can be used as a virtual assistant in the lab in combination with other access technologies and devices. The VLA allows students with VI to perform the hands-on laboratory work by themselves simply using voice control. The VLA can be accessed through any smartphone or Amazon Echo device to assist general science lab procedures. The VLA is designed to be applicable to different science laboratory work. It is also compatible with other common accessible electronic devices such as the Talking LabQuest (TLQ). We believe that the VLA can promote the inclusion of learners with VI and be beneficial to general accessible science education work.

scholarly journals Voice control and management in smart home system by artificial intelligence

2021 ◽  
Vol 1032 ◽  
pp. 012007
Author(s):  
I S Balabanova ◽  
S S Kostadinova ◽  
V I Markova ◽  
S M Sadinov ◽  
G I Georgiev
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Smart Home ◽  
Voice Control ◽  
Control And Management

scholarly journals Insights from Learning Analytics for Hands-On Cloud Computing Labs in AWS

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (24) ◽  
pp. 9148
Author(s):  
Germán Moltó ◽  
Diana M. Naranjo ◽  
J. Damian Segrelles
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Learning Analytics ◽  
Cloud Provider ◽  
Online Students ◽  
Computing Services ◽  
Hands On ◽  
Data Processing Tool ◽  
Amazon Web Services ◽  
Course Length ◽  
And Performance

Cloud computing instruction requires hands-on experience with a myriad of distributed computing services from a public cloud provider. Tracking the progress of the students, especially for online courses, requires one to automatically gather evidence and produce learning analytics in order to further determine the behavior and performance of students. With this aim, this paper describes the experience from an online course in cloud computing with Amazon Web Services on the creation of an open-source data processing tool to systematically obtain learning analytics related to the hands-on activities carried out throughout the course. These data, combined with the data obtained from the learning management system, have allowed the better characterization of the behavior of students in the course. Insights from a population of more than 420 online students through three academic years have been assessed, the dataset has been released for increased reproducibility. The results corroborate that course length has an impact on online students dropout. In addition, a gender analysis pointed out that there are no statistically significant differences in the final marks between genders, but women show an increased degree of commitment with the activities planned in the course.

scholarly journals Choices of pre-service science teachers laboratory environments: Hands-on or hands-off?

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-51
Author(s):  
Hasan Ozgur Kapici ◽  
Hasan Akçay
Keyword(s):  
Science Teachers ◽  
Conceptual Understanding ◽  
Scientific Reasoning ◽  
Service Science ◽  
Attractive Alternative ◽  
Science And Technology Education ◽  
Virtual Lab ◽  
Online Laboratory ◽  
Hands On ◽  
Scientific Reasoning Skills

AbstractLearning in laboratories for students is not only crucial for conceptual understanding, but also contributes to gaining scientific reasoning skills. Following fast developments in technology, online laboratory environments have been improved considerably and nowadays form an attractive alternative for hands-on laboratories. The study was done in order to reveal pre-service science teachers’ preferences for hands-on or online laboratory environments. Participants of the study were 41 pre-service science teachers who were enrolled in a 13-week course on laboratory applications in science education. Findings showed that more than half of the pre-service science teachers would prefer to use hands-on laboratory environments for both conceptual teaching in their classrooms and to develop their students’ science process skills. The reasons behind their choices are discussed.Keywords: Online lab, hands-on lab, virtual lab, science and technology education, pre-service science teachers.* ADDRESS FOR CORRESPONDENCE: Hasan Özgur Kapıcı , Yıldız Teknik Ünivesitesi, Istanbul, TurkeyE-mail

scholarly journals Artificial Intelligence in Public Health Dentistry

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (9) ◽  
pp. RV1-RV5
Author(s):  
Sahrish Tariq ◽  
Nidhi Gupta ◽  
Preety Gupta ◽  
Aditi Sharma
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Neural Networks ◽  
Clinical Practice ◽  
Correct Diagnosis ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Modern Science ◽  
Appropriate Technology ◽  
Human Element ◽  
New Knowledge

The educational needs must drive the development of the appropriate technology”. They should not be viewed as toys for enthusiasts. Nevertheless, the human element must never be dismissed. Scientific research will continue to offer exciting technologies and effective treatments. For the profession and the patients, it serves to benefit fully from modern science, new knowledge and technologies must be incorporated into the mainstream of dental education. The technologies of modern science have astonished and intrigued our imagination. Correct diagnosis is the key to a successful clinical practice. In this regard, adequately trained neural networks can be a boon to diagnosticians, especially in conditions having multifactorial etiology.

scholarly journals ECS1@IYCr2014: Conveying a vision of modern crystallography

2014 ◽  
Vol 70 (a1) ◽  
pp. C1311-C1311
Author(s):  
Roberta Oberti ◽  
Serena Tarantino ◽  
Michele Zema ◽  
Marco Milanesio ◽  
Rita Berisio ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Modern Science ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Scientific Institutions ◽  
The Social ◽  
Hands On ◽  
Stable Periodic ◽  
Preparatory Course ◽  
The Common ◽  
Widespread Interest

The first edition of the ECA European Crystallography School (ECS1), to be held in Pavia (Italy) during the course of IYCr2014, has found good balance between two apparently diverging goals: (i) to help students and young researchers to find their way in modern science, while keeping a special focus on the molecular and crystalline structure to interpret properties and functionality of materials; (ii) to raise the social and academic awareness of the great advances that crystallography has allowed and will allow to many branches of sciences. Students may choose between two formulae, i.e. a 6-day course with lectures and hands-on sessions held by renowned scientists, covering the state-of-the-art of crystallographic methods, theories and applications, at the same time indicating their future perspectives and cutting-edge aspects, or a 10-day Erasmus Intensive Programme, including a 3-day preparatory course and granting 3 ECTS credits. IYCr2014 is a unique opportunity to stimulate and ignite widespread interest in crystallography; therefore, some frontier seminars will be open to University faculty members, students, and to the general public. Efforts will be made to create a nice and friendly environment, with the goal to provide chances for future collaborations. Students will be invited to bring a poster showing their research results, projects or scientific interests. This will allow students to discuss their ideas with experienced crystallographers and favour aggregation. The programme received good support from scientific institutions and vendors, and a great response from the students: more than 110 pre-registrations from 33 countries were already received at the time this abstract was prepared, showing that there is a real need for both fundamental and advanced teaching in crystallography. We hope that this format will be continued and improved so as to provide a stable, periodic rendezvous for students and researchers under the common theme of crystallography.

FEATURES AND TRENDS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (5) ◽  
pp. 130-134
Author(s):  
E. A. ULANOV ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Modern Science ◽  
Robotic Technology ◽  
Special Area ◽  
Analytical System ◽  
Intelligence Development

The scale of the tasks being solved has turned AI into a special area of modern science. AI is a branch of science that studies ways to train a computer, robotic technology, or analytical system to think intelligently. The article reveals the essence and concept of artificial intelligence. The main features, problems, trends and prospects of artificial intelligence development are analyzed.

Virtual Laboratory Work for Discovering Gas Solubility in Water

2018 ◽  
pp. 281-297
Author(s):  
Göran Karlsson
Keyword(s):  
Laboratory Experiment ◽  
Scientific Reasoning ◽  
Virtual Laboratory ◽  
Laboratory Work ◽  
Design Experiment ◽  
Gas Solubility ◽  
Solubility In Water ◽  
Hands On ◽  
Solubility Of Gases

Compared to hands-on experiments, virtual laboratory work has the advantage of being both more cost- and time-effective, but also invokes questions about its explorative capacities. The aim of this chapter is to study how students' scientific reasoning was contingent on altered guiding structures within a virtual laboratory experiment. The virtual laboratory was developed through a design experiment involving three successive versions with altered guiding structures. Analysis of 12 dyads' reasoning about gas solubility in water revealed that the problem was not primarily for the students to realize how the volume of gas changed, but rather to understand the concept of solubility of gases. It was also observed how the guiding structures within each version influenced the students' reasoning about the studied phenomenon in certain trajectories.

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