Embrace real-life applications and hands-on activities
Embrace real-life applications and hands-on activities
- When choosing your content, examples and practical problems -- celebrate reality!
- Consider introducing a problem-based approach centered around real-world problems.
- Consider introducing (more) hands-on activities in class.
- Show relevance of STEM subjects to our lives and underline their social value (e.g. Medical Technologies, Environmental Sciences, home technologies for family convenience and safety).
[1] Ceci & Williams , 2010.
[2] Burke, 2007.
[3] Clewell & Braddock, 2000.
[4] Blanchard et al. 2017.