Designing a Future Classroom Laboratory for Exploring the Science of Teaching and Learning

The Texas Woman’s University Future Classroom Laboratory (TWUFCL) is a unique learning space designed for use by university faculty, future teachers, and local PreK-12 teachers and students. Part of the European Schoolnet’s Network of Future Classroom Labs, the TWUFCL offers users the chance to explore the science of teaching and learning in a technology-rich environment containing a multitude of individual approaches and applications that are available to teachers throughout the U.S. Centered around the Four C’s of 21stCentury Learning: communication, collaboration, critical thinking, and creativity. This unique learning space allows future teachers to explore technology and applications available in schools prior to student teaching. The space allows faculty to incorporate practical, interactive teaching experiences into coursework. Local K-12 teachers and students can use the innovative environment to explore ideas and applications they can take back to their own classrooms and use with students across the curriculum. The collaborative design approach to this evolving educational laboratory for training teachers and students included stakeholders from throughout the university and community in its state-of-the-art design described within.

Impact Assessment of Classroom-Based Artificial Intelligence in Bulacan Agricultural State College

The study aims to give a comprehensive report on findings on managing the BASC computer laboratory classroom by using assisted learning technology. The study implemented and assessed the output of the capstone project of the BSIT students entitled "Intelligent Personal Assistant via Speech Recognition”. The researcher conducted a systematic review of the performance of the system in terms of its procedure in manipulating the different applications installed in each computer laboratory. This includes the current management in the different facilities and application in every workstation. The researcher also observed the performance of the system and investigate the advantages of this technology which helps the instructor on handling the classroom laboratory. This study helps the institution to improve its services to its clientele to be more globally competitive. The study would like to seek for more possible application and implementation of Artificial Intelligence System in the Bulacan Agricultural State College in order to maximize the usage of the study.

CREATING AUTHENTIC LEARNING ACTIVITIES IN PHARMACEUTICAL INSTRUMENTAL ANALYSIS: USING THE INTEGRATED LABORATORY NETWORK FOR REMOTE ACCESS TO SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTATION

The Western Washington University Integrated Laboratory Network (ILN) is an initiative to provide anytime/anyplace access to scientific instrumentation for use in the classroom, laboratory, and research environments. The ILN provides students with greater opportunities to design and conduct real experiments remotely using advanced analytical instrumentation. This paper describes the use of the ILN to provide pharmaceutical sciences students at the University of British Columbia with remote access to instrumentation located at Western Washington University for the purpose of measuring metals in traditional herbal medicines. Prior to the introduction of the ILN, this type of activity would have been difficult, if not impossible, to conduct. Student feedback related to the use of the ILN was positive and supports the further development of curricular materials related to the use of remote instrumentation.