Do-it-yourself (DiY) science: The proliferation, relevance and concerns

Sarpong, David; Ofosu, George; Botchie, David; Clear, Fintan

doi:10.1016/j.techfore.2020.120127

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“…Finally, at home, do-it-yourself (DIY) labs can promote student creativity and autonomy ( 39 ) and lower barriers to participation in lab activities. Critically, we distinguish this recommendation from suggesting students engage in the current “DiY Science” movement, in which nonbiologists attempt genetic engineering at home ( 40 ). We also reiterate the importance of caution with DIY labs and refer readers to the ASM Guidelines for Biosafety in Teaching Laboratories ( 41 ), specifically those regarding at-home microbiology kits.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Teaching during COVID-19 Times: A Community College Perspective

Mazur

Creech

Just

et al. 2021

J Microbiol Biol Educ.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Teaching during COVID-19 Times: A Community College Perspective

Mazur

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Just

et al. 2021

J Microbiol Biol Educ.

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“…The theory further shows that socio-economic issues, including poverty and low social status, could inspire people to take decisions that could be inimical to a sustainable green environment [40,41]. For instance, the quest to gain employment could lead people to engage in illegal mining activities [42]. Thus, in view of the fact that farmers are fully aware of the benefits of cocoa agroforestry but do not generally adopt shaded cocoa production system brings to the fore the need to interrogate the traditional top-down approach to cocoa innovation dissemination to farmers.…”

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Working towards Sustainable Innovation for Green Waste Benefits: The Role of Awareness of Consequences in the Adoption of Shaded Cocoa Agroforestry in Ghana

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Drawing on the awareness of consequence literature, this paper unpacks how the awareness of the consequences of full-sun cocoa production can encourage farmers to adopt shaded cocoa agroforestry that preserves the land and favours better cocoa farm waste management. Using Ghana as a case study, the paper provides distinctive insights on how shaded cocoa agroforestry systems provide sustainable yields in the medium- to long-term, relative to unshaded systems. We also find that cocoa farmers’ awareness of consequences about the effects of undertaking unshaded cocoa production could make individual farmers exhibit pro-environmental behaviour, leading to the adoption of cocoa agroforestry systems that help preserve soil fertility and improve waste management. We recommend that the utilization of awareness of consequence protocols, coupled with the efficient diffusion of information on the benefits of agroforestry in terms of waste management and environmental improvements to the cocoa farmers, could increase the adoption of shaded cocoa production regimes in Ghana.

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“…Despite the benefits and the expansion of the Do-it-Yourself (DiY) culture around these educational tools, there is only a small number of projects about open-source potentiostats development with enough available information for their replication. This replicability is particularly important because a successful reproduction of these open-source devices by students and professors in low-resource laboratories could ensure a better learning process of electrochemical methods [ 20 ].…”

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Low-cost smartphone-controlled potentiostat based on Arduino for teaching electrochemistry fundamentals and applications

Cordova-Huaman

Jauja-Ccana

Rosa-Toro

2021

Heliyon

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Accessibility to potentiostats is crucial for research development in electrochemistry, but their cost is the principal drawback for their massive use. With the aim to provide an affordable alternative for resource-constrained communities, we present a low-cost, portable electrochemical workstation that integrates an open-source potentiostat based on Arduino and a smartphone application. This graphical user interface allows easy control of electrochemical parameters and real-time visualization of the results. This potentiostat can perform the most used electrochemical techniques of cyclic and linear voltammetry and chronoamperometry, with an operating range of AE225 μA and AE1.50 V, and results that are comparable with those obtained with commercial potentiostats. Three applications reported here demonstrate the capacity and the good performance of this low-cost potentiostat as a teaching tool: identification of redox pairs, electrochemical characterization of pencil graphite electrodes, and detection of heavy metals using an electrodeposited film of bismuth on the pencil graphite electrode. Furthermore, detailed schemes of the device and its software are entirely available, expecting to provide an open-source potentiostat easy to replicate to further support education in electrochemical fundamentals and instrumentation.

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Do-it-yourself (DiY) science: The proliferation, relevance and concerns

Cited by 60 publications

References 91 publications

Teaching during COVID-19 Times: A Community College Perspective

Teaching during COVID-19 Times: A Community College Perspective

Working towards Sustainable Innovation for Green Waste Benefits: The Role of Awareness of Consequences in the Adoption of Shaded Cocoa Agroforestry in Ghana

Low-cost smartphone-controlled potentiostat based on Arduino for teaching electrochemistry fundamentals and applications

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