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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://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!

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