Field Training in STEM Education | SDG 4@earthdigitalbook
Education plays a key role in human civilization's progress as a means of passing on knowledge and values from one generation to the next. Two realities link global developments with the challenges to higher education's advancement. Both the characteristics of a modern student and the tools used in the classroom have evolved. Teachers may be taught in these new ways, and there are an expanding variety of technologies in higher education today, related to information transfer. Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) curricula must include both traditional classroom instruction and hands-on lab experiences. In the context of globalization, this tendency is becoming more widespread, and education is being shifted to the service sector. Individual shifts are seen in today's learners. The following characteristics set them apart from their forebears: pragmatism, independence, clip thinking, inattention, and an insatiable demand for self-expression. Along with nanotechnology and biotechnology, geoscience is considered one of the three most significant new sectors. With more and more data being made available via satellites, aircraft, and drones, the ability to think spatially is becoming more important for the workforce of the future. For STEM classes, as well as those in allied fields, where concepts do not exist separately, field trips may be a powerful learning tool. To think creatively and find solutions to problems, they are interdependent and interrelated.
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Created by: Dr. Sanghamitra Adhya