Enhancing Practice and Achievement in Introductory Programming With a Robot Olympics

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Research Priorities for Robust and Beneficial Artificial Intelligence

Success in the quest for artificial intelligence has the potential to bring unprecedented benefits to humanity, and it is therefore worthwhile to investigate how to maximize these benefits while avoiding potential pitfalls. This article gives numerous examples (which should by no means be construed as an exhaustive list) of such worthwhile research aimed at ensuring that AI remains robust and beneficial.Comment: This article gives examples of the type of research advocated by the open letter for robust & beneficial AI at http://futureoflife.org/ai-open-lette

Can an Engineering Competition Catalyze Curriculum Innovation?

This article describes the ongoing efforts of a multidisciplinary group of faculty at an undergraduate institution to form a team and compete in the IBM AI XPRIZE competition. We describe the advantages and disadvantages of faculty participation in major engineering competitions over more traditional professional activities at undergraduate engineering institutions. Our discussion is focused on the benefits to three major groups: undergraduate students, faculty, and academic institutions. We use examples from our one year of experience in the competition and from the literature to illustrate these benefits. Already observed benefits from the competition include increased student engagement, development and introduction of a new minor in cognitive science, the purchase of a state-of-the-art robot and a deep learning server, enhanced multidisciplinary collaboration among faculty, and heightened awareness among administrators of the growing importance of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. Results of a student survey regarding their involvement in with the team are presented

Fleas, Caterpillars and Cockroaches: A Summer School in Bio-inspired Robotics

There is no doubt that the coming decades will see a continued increase in the application of robotics in our daily lives. It is vital that we encourage more young people to pursue careers in STEM fields and in particular, robotics. Universities can play their part by running events that allow participants to explore the field of robotics through hands-on projects. In this paper our experiences in designing and running a bio-inspired robotics summer school for young women is described. The summer school was successful and we have made the teaching and learning materials available for others to use

Exploring the future of mathematics teaching: Insight with ChatGPT

This study aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the future of mathematics teaching from the perspective of ChatGPT, an advanced language processing artificial intelligence (AI) developed by OpenAI. The results of the chat transcripts edited with ChatGPT suggest that the future of mathematics teaching will see the integration of technology and AI to provide personalized learning experiences, blended learning environments, and computational thinking, data literacy, and statistics. Problem-solving, critical thinking, and interdisciplinary connections will continue to be emphasized, and equity and inclusion will remain crucial. AI is expected to revolutionize mathematics education, but thoughtful implementation, ongoing professional development, and pedagogical considerations are essential. However, the future of teaching mathematics will continue to evolve. Therefore, teachers and lecturers need to keep abreast of the latest developments and adapt to them while remaining committed to providing quality teaching.Studi ini bertujuan untuk memberikan gambaran komprehensif tentang masa depan pengajaran matematika dari perspektif ChatGPT, Artificial Intelligence (AI) pemrosesan bahasa tingkat lanjut yang dikembangkan oleh OpenAI. Hasil transkrip obrolan yang diedit dengan ChatGPT menunjukkan bahwa masa depan pengajaran matematika akan melihat integrasi teknologi dan AI untuk memberikan pengalaman belajar yang dipersonalisasi, lingkungan pembelajaran campuran, dan pemikiran komputasi, literasi data, dan statistik. Pemecahan masalah, pemikiran kritis, dan koneksi interdisipliner akan terus ditekankan, dan kesetaraan dan inklusi akan tetap penting. AI diharapkan merevolusi pendidikan matematika, tetapi implementasi yang bijaksana, pengembangan profesional berkelanjutan, dan pertimbangan pedagogis sangat penting. Namun, masa depan pengajaran matematika akan terus berkembang. Oleh karena itu, guru dan dosen perlu mengikuti perkembangan terkini dan beradaptasi dengannya sambil tetap berkomitmen untuk memberikan pengajaran yang berkualitas

ROBOTICS COMPETITION-BASED LEARNING FOR 21ST CENTURY STEM EDUCATION

This article proposes the Robotics Competition-based Learning (R-CBL) in the 21st century learning environment to integrate Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) education. This study has an attempt to highlight the connections between the STEM disciplines as well as the integration of 21st-century competencies to spark students’ interest towards the STEM. The problem statement revealed in this article is Malaysia may soon experience a serious human capital deficiency in the STEM field. Thus, it is important to practice a new pedagogy for 21st century integrated STEM education. The objectives of this study is to investigate the effectiveness of R-CBL to increase students’ interest towards STEM in “Robot Olympics Malaysia 2018”. The finding in this research shows the educational robotics as the digital tool can promote STEM learning among secondary school students. In conclusion, by practising Robotics Competition-based Learning in 21st century STEM classroom, learners are expected to have attentiveness in the integrated STEM curriculum. The implication of this pedagogy is to bridge the gap between the expected curriculums, written curriculum, and taught the curriculum. Keywords: robotics, competition, STEM education, 21st centur

Plan validation and mixed-initiative planning in space operations

Bringing artificial intelligence planning and scheduling applications into the real world is a hard task that is receiving more attention every day by researchers and practitioners from many fields. In many cases, it requires the integration of several underlying techniques like planning, scheduling, constraint satisfaction, mixed-initiative planning and scheduling, temporal reasoning, knowledge representation, formal models and languages, and technological issues. Most papers included in this book are clear examples on how to integrate several of these techniques. Furthermore, the book also covers many interesting approaches in application areas ranging from industrial job shop to electronic tourism, environmental problems, virtual teaching or space missions. This book also provides powerful techniques that allow to build fully deployable applications to solve real problems and an updated review of many of the most interesting areas of application of these technologies, showing how powerful these technologies are to overcome the expresiveness and efficiency problems of real world problems

Proceedings of the International Workshop on EuroPLOT Persuasive Technology for Learning, Education and Teaching (IWEPLET 2013)

"This book contains the proceedings of the International Workshop on EuroPLOT Persuasive Technology for Learning, Education and Teaching (IWEPLET) 2013 which was held on 16.-17.September 2013 in Paphos (Cyprus) in conjunction with the EC-TEL conference. The workshop and hence the proceedings are divided in two parts: on Day 1 the EuroPLOT project and its results are introduced, with papers about the specific case studies and their evaluation. On Day 2, peer-reviewed papers are presented which address specific topics and issues going beyond the EuroPLOT scope. This workshop is one of the deliverables (D 2.6) of the EuroPLOT project, which has been funded from November 2010 – October 2013 by the Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA) of the European Commission through the Lifelong Learning Programme (LLL) by grant #511633. The purpose of this project was to develop and evaluate Persuasive Learning Objects and Technologies (PLOTS), based on ideas of BJ Fogg. The purpose of this workshop is to summarize the findings obtained during this project and disseminate them to an interested audience. Furthermore, it shall foster discussions about the future of persuasive technology and design in the context of learning, education and teaching. The international community working in this area of research is relatively small. Nevertheless, we have received a number of high-quality submissions which went through a peer-review process before being selected for presentation and publication. We hope that the information found in this book is useful to the reader and that more interest in this novel approach of persuasive design for teaching/education/learning is stimulated. We are very grateful to the organisers of EC-TEL 2013 for allowing to host IWEPLET 2013 within their organisational facilities which helped us a lot in preparing this event. I am also very grateful to everyone in the EuroPLOT team for collaborating so effectively in these three years towards creating excellent outputs, and for being such a nice group with a very positive spirit also beyond work. And finally I would like to thank the EACEA for providing the financial resources for the EuroPLOT project and for being very helpful when needed. This funding made it possible to organise the IWEPLET workshop without charging a fee from the participants.