Abstract
The innovative education trend is gradually developed on/off campus in past years. The constant integration of digital technology with education generating the new-style education model redefines the integrated activity and information technology curricula at schools. Creative thinking aims to cultivate students combining various situations (e.g., scientific situation, industrial situation, living situation) with creative design and developing original research and problem solving with specific engineering goals. Taking college students in Bangkok, Thailand, as the research object, total 316 students are preceded the 16-week (3 hours per week for total 48 hours) STEM inquiry method experimental research. The research results are summarized as below. 1. STEM inquiry method cultivates students’ personal scientific activity and inquiry ability without restricting the ideas, but guides students to experience the complete learning process. 2. STEM education, with integrated instruction, cultivates students learning knowledge and skills for the application to real life. During students’ learning, the integration of subject knowledge, life experience, and learner-centered is emphasized. 3. Taking the curriculum design principle of STEM inquiry method, i.e. students’ interested issues, into the consideration of curriculum design and combining several relevant curriculum fields for integrated instruction, the planned self-directed learning activities and opportunities could assist students in applying the learned knowledge to solve problems in real life so as to enhance students’ creative thinking ability. According to the results to propose suggestions, it is expected to help students learn complete knowledge and, more importantly, present critical thinking and problem solving abilities.
Highlights
Education aims to assist people in applying knowledge to have better quality of life
Creative thinking aims to cultivate students combining various situations with creative design and developing original research and problem solving with specific engineering goals
Most people would not apply knowledge learned at schools to daily life, nor combine daily life experiences with knowledge learned at schools
Summary
Education aims to assist people in applying knowledge to have better quality of life. Most people would not apply knowledge learned at schools to daily life, nor combine daily life experiences with knowledge learned at schools. In other words, they could not apply the learned knowledge among different subjects. To achieve the coherent and integrated learning theme, the combination with life situation allows students comprehending learning content and further integrating with real application, problem solving, and continuous innovation to achieve the effectiveness of lifelong learning. The innovative education content would bear dimensions of innovation, production, and wisdom to innovatively perform on creative thinking and transboundary thinking. Creative thinking aims to cultivate students to combine various situations
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