ERIC Number: EJ1329024
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2021-Dec
Pages: 8
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Leveraging STEM and Digital Technologies to Teach 21st Century Skills in the Primary and Secondary Classroom
Goode, Joel; Flint, Rebecca
Teaching Science, v67 n4 p18-25 Dec 2021
At Lockyer District High School, the inquiry-based learning undertaken by the STEM Signature Program is complementary to the general capabilities, particularly: critical and creative thinking; information and communication technology; and personal and social capability. In this STEM program, numerous different digital technologies were used to create a curriculum to teach digital technologies, inquiry learning and 21st century skills. The authors were early adopters of Kitsunei and have been happy with this digital technology as a platform to enable them to teach STEM. Kitsunei, or Kitsi blocks, are a STEM and Maker platform consisting of electronic modules that can be joined together in numerous ways to achieve outcomes from the very simple to the complex (Kitsunei.com, accessed 2021). This next generation will be familiar with multiple different technologies and an understanding of the fundamentals of coding and programming. They will possess certain personal characteristics such as resilience, problem-solving skills, thinking outside of the box, and communication. The utilisation of the Kitsunei digital technology provides one way of teaching all of these skills in the classroom to hopefully best prepare the students for the jobs of the future.
Descriptors: STEM Education, Learner Engagement, 21st Century Skills, Active Learning, Electronic Learning, Educational Technology, Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Technology Uses in Education, Inquiry, Student Centered Learning, Self Efficacy
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Early Childhood Education; Elementary Education; Primary Education; Secondary Education; Elementary Secondary Education
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Language: English
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