Technology in the Service of Pedagogy: Teaching with Chemistry Databases

Tuvi-Arad, Inbal; Blonder, Ron

doi:10.1002/ijch.201800076

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“…It has also been reported that the perception of secondary school students towards the integration of bioinformatics in the curriculum is also very positive in improving their learning (Machluf et al, 2016). Hence, to be scientifically literate with the fast demand of 21 st digital century, it is such a necessity for high school chemistry teachers to upgrade their professional qualifications related to computing technology through professional development on modeling, visualization and application of chemistry and bioinformatics databases in supporting teaching and learning pedagogy (Tuvi-Arad & Blonder, 2019). After the workshop, an increase in awareness, knowledge, and confidence were seen, which could be observed in Figure 2.…”

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Chemistry Teachers’ Awareness, Understanding, and Confidence toward Computational Tools for Molecular Visualization

Saudale

Lerrick

Parikesit

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JPII

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Recent advances in cheminformatics and bioinformatics research have generated software and computational tools for molecular modeling and visualization that can be incorporated to improve chemistry teaching and learning in high school. Nevertheless, there have never been any study simultaneously reporting chemistry teachers' awareness, understanding, and confidence toward contemporary computer-aided molecular modeling and visualization tools. This study examined 32 high school chemistry teachers' knowledge, understanding and confidence toward nine new computational programs on molecular modeling and visualization namely ChemDraw, HyperChem, UCSF Chimera, Marvin Sketch, PsiPred, MBC (PS2), Rampage, Vienna RNA Package and Mode RNA following two days of professional workshop-based training. After completing the training and assessments, the teachers showed an enhancement in awareness, understanding, and confidence toward those nine computational programs. Intensive activities consisting of theoretical lectures, hands-on practices, assignments, and case study presentations seem to provide valuable resources to the increase in teachers' knowledge, understanding, and skill that incorporates computational technology. Hence, the impact of this research pointed toward the value of teachers' professional development that creates a platform to reduce the barriers of access, resources, knowledge, and skills. This study is expected to help improving teachers' awareness, understanding, and confidence necessarily required for further implementation of available technology for instructional purposes.

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Chemistry Teachers’ Awareness, Understanding, and Confidence toward Computational Tools for Molecular Visualization

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Lerrick

Parikesit

et al. 2019

JPII

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“…Education in the areas of food science, human nutrition and dietetics can utilize the benefits and meet the challenges of the big data era. The potential of Internet databases in teaching chemistry has been recently emphasized by Tuvi-Arad and Blonder [ 67 ]. Databases may serve as tools supporting classic, printed handbooks.…”

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Free Accessible Databases as a Source of Information about Food Components and Other Compounds with Anticancer Activity–Brief Review

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Diet is considered to be a significant factor in cancer prevention and therapy. Many food components reveal anticancer activity. The increasing number of experiments concerning the anticancer potential of chemical compounds, including food components, is a challenge for data searching. Specialized databases provide an opportunity to overcome this problem. Data concerning the anticancer activity of chemical compounds may be found in general databases of chemical compounds and databases of drugs, including specialized resources concerning anticancer compounds, databases of food components, and databases of individual groups of compounds, such as polyphenols or peptides. This brief review summarizes the state of knowledge of chemical databases containing information concerning natural anticancer compounds (e.g., from food). Additionally, the information about text- and structure-based search options and links between particular internet resources is provided in this paper. Examples of the application of databases in food and nutrition sciences are also presented with special attention to compounds that are interesting from the point of view of dietary cancer prevention. Simple examples of potential database search possibilities are also discussed.

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“…Some of these software are provided free of charge with a web-based interface. [8][9][10][11] These features make them easily accessible to non-expert users as well as to chemical educator interested in integrating computational knowledge and skills in the undergraduate chemistry curriculum. [7] Altogether, using computational methods provide opportunities to create an authentic learning experience as students use state-of-the-art research tools and analyze the results of their own calculations rather than relying on published data.…”

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Computational Chemistry in the Undergraduate Classroom – Pedagogical Considerations and Teaching Challenges

Tuvi-Arad

2021

Israel Journal of Chemistry

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The interdisciplinary field of computational chemistry links many facets of chemistry and provides unique insights into structure, mechanisms, dynamics, and the interplay between them. Various approaches were proposed for integrating computational chemistry in the undergraduate classroom, all highlight the benefits of including it in the chemistry curriculum. This study focuses on the desirable learning outcomes, and defines a structural framework of computational chemistry literacy. Based on this approach analysis of the pedagogical approach of selected studies that implemented computational chemistry in undergraduate chemistry classrooms is presented. Three models for including computational chemistry in the undergraduate program were uncovered in this analysis: the specialized course model, the augmented course model, and the islands of computations model. These models are discussed along with teaching and learning challenges as well as routes to bypass them.

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Technology in the Service of Pedagogy: Teaching with Chemistry Databases

Cited by 16 publications

References 63 publications

Chemistry Teachers’ Awareness, Understanding, and Confidence toward Computational Tools for Molecular Visualization

Chemistry Teachers’ Awareness, Understanding, and Confidence toward Computational Tools for Molecular Visualization

Free Accessible Databases as a Source of Information about Food Components and Other Compounds with Anticancer Activity–Brief Review

Computational Chemistry in the Undergraduate Classroom – Pedagogical Considerations and Teaching Challenges

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