21st century skills & STEAM
In this module you will focus on an overview of what 21st century skills are and why they are important to STEAM education. This module will outline the skills needed in the 21st century and how these skills can be cultivated through STEAM education.
Take a moment to think about what skills you feel are necessary to be a productive citizen in our ever growing and globalized culture. Jot your answers in the forum to discuss
The Past, Present and Future
STEAM has transformed from only incorporating science, technology, engineering, and math, STEM. To now including art as a content area to help the student continue to be creative and innovative. Including art now encompasses every subject area to make the STEAM initiative more well rounded and has every 21st century skill,critical thinking, collaboration, creativity and communication that prepares students for a globalized culture.
STEAM has transformed from only incorporating science, technology, engineering, and math, STEM. To now including art as a content area to help the student continue to be creative and innovative. Including art now encompasses every subject area to make the STEAM initiative more well rounded and has every 21st century skill,critical thinking, collaboration, creativity and communication that prepares students for a globalized culture.
The correlation between STEAM and 21st century skills.
The video below will show you how you can incorporate 21st century skills into your STEAM education through project based learning.
The video below will show you how you can incorporate 21st century skills into your STEAM education through project based learning.
Project based learning incorporates the 21st century skills: critical thinking by having students solve a problem, collaboration with other students that they are paired up with to solve that problem, communication and creativity by having the students come up with an innovative way to express their solution to the problem.
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