What is it about?
Examining students' learning by assessing their connection to biochemistry aspects following their participation in socio-scientific-based learning to address socio-scientific issues, such as health, nutrition, and sports in virtual classroom.
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Why is it important?
Our previous studies found that many students are difficult to learn biochemistry from textbooks and addressing socio-scientific issues that are comprise of biochemistry such as health, nutrition, and sports in face-to-face course. However, during Covid-19 pandemic students are driven to learn biochemistry virtually using online social media platform. During the period of the Covid-19 pandemic, biochemistry learning was taught virtually using online social media platform, such as Google Meet (GM), Zoom, and WhatsApp (WA). In virtual classroom, students can ask questions, express opinions or ideas, and address socio-scientific issues as well as in the offline learning. In online learning, students can record learning activities to be shown repeatedly. However, online learning is considered less effective than offline learning, mainly for practical activities in the laboratory. Biochemistry is difficult to learn in face-to-face learning as well as in online learning due to the language of science, including abstract concepts, macromolecule symbols, and complex biochemical reactions.
Perspectives
Socio-scientific issues (SSI) are easily to share from social media platform. So, it is potentially affect student's perception and even misleading and misconception. In general, SSI is viewed macroscopically and use social language communication. Science aspects of SSI are not explicitly explained but implicitly related to SSI that are needed to explain SSI scientifically. Therefore, student must be able to explain SSI scientifically by connecting with science ideas of SSI.
Dr. Erman Erman
Universitas Negeri Surabaya
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This page is a summary of: Examining students’ learning in connecting to biochemistry ideas to address socio-scientific issues in virtual classroom, January 2022, American Institute of Physics,
DOI: 10.1063/5.0116204.
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