Strategies for Utilizing AI Technology to Enhance Science Learning Management within the STEM Education Approach

2025-07-14T08:57:40+07:00

The integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to enhance science learning within the STEM education approach is a significant advancement with the potential to revolutionize education. This paper explores four main strategies for utilizing AI: personalized learning, creating experiential learning environments, enhancing management and assessment efficiency, and fostering future skills. These strategies focus on adapting content to individual learners through intelligent tutoring systems, leveraging AI-powered virtual labs and simulations for realistic hands-on learning, using AI to reduce teachers’ administrative burdens via automated assessment and deep learning analytics, and developing essential computational thinking and AI literacy for the 21^st century. However, implementing AI in education presents significant challenges, including a lack of personnel knowledge and skills, infrastructure and budgetary constraints, and issues related to ethics, privacy, and data security. Furthermore, potential negative impacts include increased educational inequality if technology access is uneven, and the risk that over-reliance on AI might diminish students’ critical thinking skills. To maximize the benefits of AI integration and mitigate these risks, this paper recommends crucial approaches. These include substantial investment in professional development, meticulous planning of infrastructure and policies concerning data usage and ethics, promoting continuous research and evaluation, and fostering collaboration among all stakeholders. Comprehensive implementation of these recommendations will enable educational institutions to fully harness AI’s potential, creating high-quality and sustainable STEM learning for youth in the digital education era. While AI offers strategies to enhance STEM learning, its successful integration requires overcoming challenges like skill gaps and ethical concerns through professional development, careful planning, and stakeholder collaboration to create high-quality, sustainable education.

Ethnoscience Study of Madura in the Process of Making Sarkoyo Herbal Medicine as a Learning Resource for Science Material

2025-10-14T09:21:24+07:00

Sarkoyo herbal medicine is one of Madura's cultural heritages in Sumenep Regency that has become less known to the younger generation, resulting in its limited utilization in science education. This study aims to reconstruct local knowledge about the process of making Sarkoyo herbal medicine so that it can be used as a source of ethnoscience-based science learning. The study employed a mixed-methods approach with a sequential descriptive design. Quantitative data were obtained from 150 junior high school students through questionnaires, while qualitative data were collected through interviews with science teachers and herbal medicine makers, as well as through observations and documentation. Quantitative data were analyzed descriptively, while qualitative data were analyzed using the Miles and Huberman interactive model. The results showed that most students were familiar with Sarkoyo herbal medicine, but the integration of ethnoscience into science learning was remained low. The process of making Sarkoyo herbal medicine consisted of 12 stages containing science concepts such as homogeneous mixtures, heat transfer, and nutritional content, all of which are relevant to basic junior high school science competencies. Sarkoyo herbal medicine can be reconstructed as an ethnoscience-based science learning resource that integrated biology, chemistry, and physics, and thereby contributing to the improvement of students’ knowledge, the preservation of Madurese local wisdom, and the implementation of the Merdeka Curriculum in schools, ultimately strengthening students' character and scientific literacy.

International Journal of Science Education and Teaching

Strategies for Utilizing AI Technology to Enhance Science Learning Management within the STEM Education Approach

Ethnoscience Study of Madura in the Process of Making Sarkoyo Herbal Medicine as a Learning Resource for Science Material