ELD Conference 2018

Science courses have the benefit of scheduled laboratories to engage students. These sessions usually present a topic with recipe-based instructions and the expectation that students follow them to an expected experimental result. In some ways this is the opposite of the scientific process and misguides students' perceptions of scientific thought. At a highly diverse community college the 200-level microbiology laboratory was restructured to follow an inquiry-based framework where students design their own experiments. This refocusing enables each learner to explore the laboratory topics with personal interest and more closely mimics the actual scientific process.

We are engineering and exploring the real world, ethical ramifications of a class of AIs, crucially powered by cognitive logics, able to deeply understand the humans with whom they interact, so as to assist these humans in their education, in unprecedented ways. The artificial agents in the TIPPAE paradigm are able to seamlessly "teleport" between heterogenous environments in which a human learner may find herself; this capacity provides a continuous educational experience to the human student, and offers the possibility even of human-machine friendship.

This presentation will focus on using Twitter as a tool for online discussion and give specific instructions for how to approach the process, including use of hashtags, time restrictions and guidelines, and sample questions for discussion.

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