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STEM Education + EdTech Resource Review
* STEM Education + Ed Tech Weekly #2: Maybe You Should Fly a Jet, Educators in VR, Lego Drone, Podcasting in Education
STEM Careers Personal and Professional Development
Soft Skills Needed to Be Successful in STEM & STEAM
Technology evolves and changes the way that we work, as a result, the skills needed are changing.
Verizon recently published an article called 4 Soft Skills Needed to Be Successful in STEM (Four soft skills needed to be successful in STEM.)
Let’s examine a research study
Summary of Study
Title: Fostering students’ 21st century skills through Project Oriented Problem Based Learning (POBL) in integrated STEM education program (Husin, Wan Nor Fadzilah Wan et al., 2016).
* Students need to be equipped with the skills necessary in a global economy, especially in science and technology.* Study was to identify changes in 21st century skills after participating in a STEM program* Project Oriented Problem Based Learning (POPBL) was applied in the learning activities* 125 students ages 13-14 from rural areas* The outcome shows that the application of POPBL in STEM education could help enhance 21st century skills through learning how to solve real world problems through projects* 21st century skills include:* Digital age Literacy* Inventive thinking* Effective communication * High Productivity* Researchers added a spiritual norms and values criteria to accommodate the Malaysian context* To deal with 21st century challenges, workers are required to have these skills to be creative, solve problems, and work effectively on a team.* To achieve this, we must help be able to help the next generation achieve those skills* The POPBL method is a student centered teaching and learning approach which can be summarized as* Student centered and able to increase commitment and motivation from the students* Focus is on the learning process of finding a solution* Is project-based and has a goal* Having exemplarity* Promotes team work
Purpose of the Study and Research Questions
* Malaysia is focused on developing their human resources that are competitive at the global level* There is a decline in student interest in science
What is the level of 21st century skills of the students before they were involved in the POPBL in STEM education program? What is the level of 21st century skills of the students after they were involved in the POPBL in STEM education program?Was there any significant changes to level of 21st century skills of the students before and after the STEM education program? (Husin, Wan Nor Fadzilah Wan et al., 2016) (Husin, Wan Nor Fadzilah Wan et al., 2016)
Subjects and Methods
* Four different units were introduced for students to participate in* Energy* Balloon rocket and parachute* Potato battery* Urban infrastructure* Water turbine* Earthquake town* Transportation* Making a circuit* Robot programming* Wireless Communication* Flash LED* Cell antenna* Pre-test and post-test quasi-experimental design* 125 13-14 year olds in Malaysia* Majority of participant scored well on Primary School Evaluation Test (A for science and math)* Used a questionnai...
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By Heather Monthie, PhDSTEM Education + EdTech Resource Review
* STEM Education + Ed Tech Weekly #2: Maybe You Should Fly a Jet, Educators in VR, Lego Drone, Podcasting in Education
STEM Careers Personal and Professional Development
Soft Skills Needed to Be Successful in STEM & STEAM
Technology evolves and changes the way that we work, as a result, the skills needed are changing.
Verizon recently published an article called 4 Soft Skills Needed to Be Successful in STEM (Four soft skills needed to be successful in STEM.)
Let’s examine a research study
Summary of Study
Title: Fostering students’ 21st century skills through Project Oriented Problem Based Learning (POBL) in integrated STEM education program (Husin, Wan Nor Fadzilah Wan et al., 2016).
* Students need to be equipped with the skills necessary in a global economy, especially in science and technology.* Study was to identify changes in 21st century skills after participating in a STEM program* Project Oriented Problem Based Learning (POPBL) was applied in the learning activities* 125 students ages 13-14 from rural areas* The outcome shows that the application of POPBL in STEM education could help enhance 21st century skills through learning how to solve real world problems through projects* 21st century skills include:* Digital age Literacy* Inventive thinking* Effective communication * High Productivity* Researchers added a spiritual norms and values criteria to accommodate the Malaysian context* To deal with 21st century challenges, workers are required to have these skills to be creative, solve problems, and work effectively on a team.* To achieve this, we must help be able to help the next generation achieve those skills* The POPBL method is a student centered teaching and learning approach which can be summarized as* Student centered and able to increase commitment and motivation from the students* Focus is on the learning process of finding a solution* Is project-based and has a goal* Having exemplarity* Promotes team work
Purpose of the Study and Research Questions
* Malaysia is focused on developing their human resources that are competitive at the global level* There is a decline in student interest in science
What is the level of 21st century skills of the students before they were involved in the POPBL in STEM education program? What is the level of 21st century skills of the students after they were involved in the POPBL in STEM education program?Was there any significant changes to level of 21st century skills of the students before and after the STEM education program? (Husin, Wan Nor Fadzilah Wan et al., 2016) (Husin, Wan Nor Fadzilah Wan et al., 2016)
Subjects and Methods
* Four different units were introduced for students to participate in* Energy* Balloon rocket and parachute* Potato battery* Urban infrastructure* Water turbine* Earthquake town* Transportation* Making a circuit* Robot programming* Wireless Communication* Flash LED* Cell antenna* Pre-test and post-test quasi-experimental design* 125 13-14 year olds in Malaysia* Majority of participant scored well on Primary School Evaluation Test (A for science and math)* Used a questionnai...