STEM education originated in the United States and is widely used in primary and secondary education all over the world. However, STEM course is not a simple superposition of science, technology, engineering and mathematics education, but a combination of four disciplines to form an organic whole, thus better cultivating students' innovative spirit and practical ability.
STEM ability training education generally follows the problem-based learning teaching principle (PBL). PBL is a teaching method that encourages learners to solve real-world problems and disputes by using critical thinking, problem-solving skills and content knowledge.
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Characteristics of valve stem:
STEM comprehensive education has new core characteristics: interdisciplinary, interesting, experiential, situational, collaborative, design, artistic, empirical and technological upgrading.
(1) Interdisciplinary: Interdisciplinary means that in STEM education, educators no longer focus on a specific subject or pay too much attention to the boundaries of the subject, but focus on specific problems.
It emphasizes the application of interrelated knowledge in science, technology, engineering or mathematics to solve problems, and from the perspective of comprehensive application of multidisciplinary knowledge, it achieves the educational goal of crossing disciplinary boundaries and improving students' ability to solve practical problems.
(2) Interesting: STEM education emphasizes sharing and creation, and emphasizes that students can experience and gain happiness in sharing and a sense of accomplishment in creation. Some projects also gamify STEM educational content (integrating elements, methods and frameworks of the game into educational scenes).
Because embedding exploration-based and goal-oriented learning into the game is conducive to developing learners' team skills, teaching cross-curriculum concepts and responsible scientific content topics, and obtaining more and more ideal educational output.
(3) Experiential: STEM education not only advocates acquiring abstract knowledge through self-study or teacher's teaching, but also emphasizes students' hands-on, brains and participation in the learning process. STEM provides students with practical learning experience. Students apply their mathematical and scientific knowledge to solve real-world problems, and create, design, construct, discover, cooperate and solve problems.
(4) Situational: STEM education emphasizes restoring knowledge to rich life, combining interesting and challenging problems in life, and completing teaching by solving students' problems.
STEM education emphasizes that students can acquire the ability to apply knowledge in situations, and at the same time, they can understand and identify the performance of knowledge in different situations, that is, they can identify the essence of problems and solve problems flexibly according to the background information of knowledge.
(5) Collaboration: STEM education is collaborative, emphasizing mutual help and inspiration in group collaboration to construct group knowledge. Problems in STEM education are often real, and the solution of real tasks cannot be separated from the cooperation of other students, teachers or experts. In the process of completing the task, students need to communicate and discuss with others.
(6) Designability: STEM education requires that the learning output link includes design works, which can promote the integration, migration and application of knowledge and externalize the learning results and acquired knowledge and ability through works.
(7) artistry: the artistry of STEM education emphasizes increasing learners' attention and attention to humanities and social sciences in natural science teaching.
(8) Enthusiasm: STEM education should not only pay attention to the enthusiasm of science, but also emphasize the exploration of problems or projects in interdisciplinary situations, and cultivate students' scientific spirit and rationality towards real life.
(9) Technological upgrading: STEM education emphasizes that students should have certain technical literacy, that students should understand the process of technological application and development, and that they should have the ability to analyze how new technologies affect themselves and the surrounding environment.
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