STEEAM learning needs to happen before learners become too bored

Melvin Din

By Melvin Din
Community contribution / May 5, 2018

I am coining a new term, 'STEEAM learning' which is hinged around entrepreneurship. In order to produce citizens with an appreciation for innovation, we need to rethink what we are teaching now and how relevant it is going to be at the end of 2030.

A total revamp of the curriculum is a very big ask, but we can start capacity building by pulling teachers ...

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I am very passionate about hands-on learning with tangible project outcome by using the STEAM education process. Linking STEAM with Project-based learning has many pluses and some minuses. The key to success is 'listening' to the learner’s interests and current skills and not over planning beforehand. I am asking for learning to be topically current and organic with a component of incidental learning.

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