Lot of us know that we need smart, creative, innovative, problem-solving and collaborative people in our working environment. Education should prepare and train pubils and students for that. So, the old model of infusing information into brains to be able to repeat it, is definitely not the right way....
STEM are often disciplines difficult to study and understand for young learners because they require effort and the activation of particular areas of the brain, such as the frontal lobe, which control the ability to make decisions and reasoning and develop from pre-school to even at the age of...
My experience has thought me that there are numerous reasons why technology is a key aspect of the learning process in the 21st Century – known as the Information age. I believe we can list the topics related to technology importance in education as it follows: 1. For students:...
Nowadays space exploration has gained a lot of attention all over the world. Therefore, in my opinion, the required human resources on this subject should be raised especially from an early age and the approaches of the education system should be organized accordingly. My group of students in this...
In Italy, as in most parts of the world, schools were closed because of coronavirus pandemic. Teachers started DAD (distance learning) in March and never stopped till the school year ended. Distance learning was a hard and challenging experience. For a STEM teacher is quite impossible to teach without...
We are teachers who would like to talk about our distance teaching experience and good practices while building a virtual garden. We teach sixteen-year-old students from Human Science at Lyceum. We, as teachers, notwithstanding the Coronavirus isolation, have been trying to keep in touch with reality and challenge ourselves...
We live and work under unusual circumstances in the last months and a new setting in education is required. All schools are closed and our classrooms have moved to our homes. We all need to adapt to it. It is not realistic at the moment to expect the usual...
A distance teaching experience in Physics with BYOD approach for reality tasks. Physics laboratory during the emergency Covid19.
Many countries around the world are in lockdown during the novel COVID-19 pandemic, while many more countries have adopted strict social distancing rules that have forced STEM teachers to conduct online lectures to their stay-at-home students. This poses a number of challenges in the entire education sector, and it...
I am a teacher in Croatia. In my country teaching is primarily directed towards an average student. Gifted students have special needs, and I think they deserve special and individual treatment. It is not easy to prepare all necesary for such diferentiation in one classroom. Giftedness is something a...