FROM FACE TO FACE TO REMOTE LEARNING: A PRIMARY EDUCATION TEACHING SCENARIO IN DIGITAL CLASS

Abstract

"Environmental protection and its utilization, taking account of sustainable development, becomes a necessity in today’s rapidly changing era. In the schools’ surrounding environment there are resources which could be integrated in the students’ everyday life, within the frameworks of sustainability and with respect to their existence and their characteristics. Students take up an active role by implementing STEM methodology in remote learning, with a combination of synchronous and asynchronous learning. The aim of the paper is to present the design of a teaching scenario about mathematics, in the field of geometry, and specifically the teaching of angles, via STEM methodology and utilization of e-me digital classroom. Students are asked to solve the problem of designing paths in the school garden and also to recognize the angles in their home and at the work of arts. If and how a math teaching scenario using the digital environment of e-me and Web 2.0 applications and applying modern and asynchronous distance learning with STEM methodology, could lead to understanding and knowledge acquisition. The estimated duration of the teaching scenario was three teaching hours in synchronous and asynchronous learning. It was designed and implemented in 5th grade students of a primary school in Athens. Students worked individually or in groups, depending on the task assigned to them in the digital learning environment, cultivating their critical thinking and problem solving. The involvement of students in synchronous and asynchronous learning and the results of their activity, showed that the students cultivated their critical thinking and problem-solving skills. They took pleasure through creativity. Their critical thinking was encouraged via STEM methodology, where the e-me environment favored students’ navigation and the co-construction of knowledge."