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WISE directors Libby Gerard and Marcia Linn served as guest editors for a Special Issue of Education Sciences journal titled “Exploring the Future of Science Education with AI Technologies.” Check out exciting new research papers that discuss opportunities and challenges in using AI to strengthen teaching and learning in science!

wise-research.berkeley.edu

Check out our new article highlighting work leveraging AI technologies to develop an adaptive dialog that recognizes students' science ideas, asks tailored questions, and helps students generate more coherent and accurate scientific explanations.

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https://stemforall2022.videohall.com/presentations/2336

See highlights of our latest work using cutting-edge advances in natural language processing (NLP) to detect the rich ideas that students develop during everyday experience and provide adaptive guidance that gets each student started on reconsidering their own ideas, considering their peers’ ideas, and developing more coherent explanations for complex scientific phenomena.

At the 2022 NSF STEM for All Video Showcase, we present early work from our from our NLP-TIPS project, a collaboration that continues our successful collaboration with ETS. Our new idea detection technology adapts to each student’s cultural and linguistic entry points into a topic, using the ideas detected in student responses to design adaptive, interactive guidance.

Our video illustrates how this technology empowers students to use their ideas as a starting point for deepening science understanding.

Let us know your thoughts and send us questions using the public discussion forum. You can also vote for our video as a Public or Presenter’s Choice! We look forward to hearing from you.

https://www.nsta.org/science-scope/science-scope-mayjune-2022/cultivating-teacher-efficacy-social-justice-science

A new article in Science Scope (published by the National Science Teaching Association) highlights a partnership between WISE researchers and middle school science teachers to create customizable curriculum materials and a professional development workshop model to foster teacher efficacy in incorporating social justice into science teaching.

Check out the article to learn more about our ARISE (Anti-Racism Interactive Science Education) project and materials we created to respond to science teachers’ concerns about supporting students’ emotions around social justice issues and empowering students to take action.

Cultivating Teacher Efficacy for Social Justice in Science Two teachers—whose students were concerned about environmental injustices in their communities and eager to take action—initiated a collaboration to design freely available, customizable curriculum materials and a model professional development workshop. The workshop was designed to foster teach...

The WISE group has embarked on an exciting new project that uses natural language processing AI technology to detect the rich ideas that students develop during everyday experience. Using ideas detected in student responses, NLP-TIPS designs adaptive, interactive guidance that prompts students to reconsider their own ideas and pursue deeper understanding.

https://wise-research.berkeley.edu/projects/tips/

Read more about the initiative in this news release from the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Education: https://gse.berkeley.edu/nlp-tips!

Deepening Science Teaching and Learning with Language AI | Graduate School of Education Are you ready for the challenge of becoming someone who makes a difference? The Graduate School of Education welcomes visionaries and dreamers – people who don’t wait for change, but work to make it happen.

UC Berkeley graduate student and WISE researcher Li Weiying has led a successful and highly impactful collaboration with science teachers in rural Wuhan, China over the past year. The teachers implemented a WISE Global Climate Change unit with their students and, together with Weiying, wrote a report in December 2020 comparing the WISE classroom with traditional Chinese classrooms. The project report has recently been evaluated as an “Exceptional Project” by the Wuhan city Department of Education and Education Society.

Attached is the certificate they received. Certificate translation:

"Li Weiying:
The research project “The application of project based learning (Global Climate Change WISE unit) in science teaching in rural middle school” that you attended has been evaluated as the “Important project of Teaching and Education Research Plan of the Thirteenth Five-Year Plan of China” and classified as an official research finding of Wuhan Education Society.

Wuhan Education Society
2021.6.17"

The Thirteenth Five-Year Plan of China is an important guideline for every industry in China. The plan is used to map strategies for economic development, set growth targets, and launch reforms. Within the general plan, the Teaching and Education section has its own plan. It is an honor to be selected as “important project” into the Thirteenth Five-Year Plan.

Check out our latest cutting-edge work using natural language processing (NLP) to empower teachers and students to take action to promote social justice through science learning and teaching!

At the 2021 NSF STEM for All Showcase, we present recent work from our from our (STRIDES) project, a collaboration with ETS that leverages NLP to capture students’ evolving understanding of Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) three-dimensional learning. Milestone reports pair distributions of student responses with evidence based instructional opportunities that support teachers to notice student ideas and tailor instruction for their students.

Watch how WISE partner teachers utilize this data to adjust instruction based on their students’ specific needs. See how they are customizing WISE curricula to address social justice topics critically important to their students’ lives, enabling students to plan anti-racism actions through science learning.

Let us know your thoughts and send us questions using the public discussion forum. And feel free to vote for our video as a Public or Presenter’s Choice! We look forward to hearing from you. 😀

Web-based Personalized Science Units Empowering Anti-Racism Using web-based, personalized units, STRIDES is empowering teachers and students to take action to promote anti-racism. In a collaboration between UC Berkeley and ETS, STRIDES uses Natural Language...

We invite you to check out the 2020 NSF STEM for All Showcase where we present recent work from our Supporting Teachers in Responsive Instruction for Developing Expertise in Science (STRIDES) project. Come learn about how we're providing teachers with student data to help them customize instruction and adapt to distance learning in the age of COVID-19! And feel free to vote for our video as a Public or Presenter's Choice. :)

STRIDES: Customizing Online Curricula for Distance Learning Supporting Teachers in Responsive Instruction for Developing Expertise in Science (STRIDES) is a partnership of teachers, students, technology experts, assessment experts, learning scientists, and...

WISE has been highlighted by the National Science Foundation as a featured STEM education resource on the Community for Advancing Discovery Research in Education (CADRE) website!

WISE: Web-based Inquiry Science Environment | CADRE Web-Based Inquiry Science Environment (WISE)All WISE units are research-tested and aligned to the Next Generation Science Standards. Each unit is designed according to the knowledge integration perspective on learning and instruction. The units include dynamic, interactive models, automated scoring....

WISE Support for Distance Learning

The Web-Based Inquiry Science Environment (WISE) provides standards-aligned online inquiry science units. Our team is now working directly with teachers to implement, customize, and create web-based distance learning curricula for their students. We are hosting weekly office hours, facilitating teachers to collaborate on strategies for customizing WISE to create their own instruction, and supporting students and families. WISE is free to use and available worldwide.

In this challenging time, teachers are doing innovative work to ensure their students have engaging science learning opportunities and are connecting with their peers and teachers. They are connecting with colleagues to share ideas and resources and are adapting WISE units to meet the needs of their students.

Are you interested in using WISE with your students? Or are you a family member looking to supplement your students' learning while at home? We want to help! Join us for weekly Zoom office hours every Monday from 1-3pm PDT. We will answer any questions you might have and can help you facilitate and/or customize WISE units. Our Zoom meeting link is https://berkeley.zoom.us/j/209167075. You can also join our WISE Community at https://wise-discuss.berkeley.edu, contact us via email or our Contact page at any time with questions or comments. We'd love to hear about your experiences, challenges, and successes in adapting your teaching to a distance learning model!

We wish everyone good health and hope you're all staying safe! Best wishes,

The WISE Team

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We invite you to check out the 2019 NSF STEM for All Showcase, where we present recent work from our Project Learning with Automated, Networked Supports (PLANS) project: https://videohall.com/p/1479. Come learn about the power of student choice in design projects!

PLANS: Choose to Learn Project Learning with Automated, Networked Supports (PLANS) transforms science and engineering education by combining investigation and analytic technologies to guide students’ design project...