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Research in Digital Fluency and Digital Literacy

“ASTRONOMY’S AI-ASSISTED FUTURE: The next Generation of Astronomy Depends on Astronomers and Artificial Intelligences Working Together"
This article discusses how Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence are most successfully integrated when working directly with humans. It isn't a takeover but teamwork.
AI-ready Data in Space Science and Solar Physics: Problems, Mitigation and Action Plan
The main point of this essay is to define a plan to make the immense amount of space data available, AI-ready.
Astronomy and AI Beyond Conventional Astronomy.
The ability of AI and machine learning to sift through these huge amounts of data and analyze it, has made it an extremely attractive option for astronomers.
Improving Science Student Teachers' Self-perceptions of Fluency with Innovative Technologies and Scientific Inquiry Abilities
An investigation of the effects of an "Environmental Chemistry" elective course via Technology-Embedded Scientific Inquiry (TESI) model on senior science student teachers' (SSSTs) self-perceptions of fluency with innovative technologies (InT) and scientific inquiry abiliti
Why digital literacy is important for science teaching and learning.
In recent years, the Australian Government has invested heavily ($2.4 b) into the Digital Education Revolution with initiatives that aim at increasing ICT proficiencies in teachers and school leaders and equipping Years 9-12 students with a laptop each. Such initiatives should be welcomed by the science education community as ICT offers affordances that could benefit enormously the teaching and learning of science. This paper argues that as part of the sustainable changes to using ICT in science education, is the need to develop digital literacy in teachers and students.
AI Shortcuts Speed up Simulations by Billions of Times
AI allows for scientists to analyze immense amounts of data in real time.

Research in Science Literacy

Science Literacy: a More Fundamental Meaning
Over a century of attention to “science literacy for all” has not produced a public that can appreciate a common body of core science facts, concepts, and methods; nor have many acquired from their years in K–12 education the ability to apply science learning to everyday problems or to the scientific issues that concern a democracy. Some have called the endeavor impossible and moved on to lesser goals of science appreciation and heuristic guides to choosing trusted experts. However, a route to science literacy may yet be possible, if we redefine the goal as achieving literacy within a community.
(Mis)informed about what? What it means to be a science-literate citizen in a digital world.
Science literacy is often held up as crucial for avoiding science-related misinformation and enabling more informed individual and collective decision-making. But research has not yet examined whether science literacy actually enables this, nor what skills it would need to encompass to do so. In this report, we address three questions to outline what it should mean to be science literate in today’s world: 1) How should we conceptualize science literacy? 2) How can we achieve this science literacy? and 3) What can we expect science literacy’s most important outcomes to be? If science literacy is to truly enable people to become and stay informed (and avoid being misinformed) on complex science issues, it requires skills that span the “lifecycle” of science information.

Digital and Science Literacy Videos

eBooks

Why Geology Matters by Doug Macdougall
ISBN: 9780520272712
Publication Date: 2011-05-02
Volcanic dust, climate change, tsunamis, earthquakes--geoscience explores phenomena that profoundly affect our lives. But more than that, as Doug Macdougall makes clear, the science also provides important clues to the future of the planet. In an entertaining and accessibly written narrative, Macdougall gives an overview of Earth's astonishing history based on information extracted from rocks, ice cores, and other natural archives. He explores such questions as: What is the risk of an asteroid striking Earth? Why does the temperature of the ocean millions of years ago matter today? How are efforts to predict earthquakes progressing? Macdougall also explains the legacy of greenhouse gases from Earth's past and shows how that legacy shapes our understanding of today's human-caused climate change. We find that geoscience in fact illuminates many of today's most pressing issues--the availability of energy, access to fresh water, sustainable agriculture, maintaining biodiversity--and we discover how, by applying new technologies and ideas, we can use it to prepare for the future.