STEM课程更关注真实问题

STEM Courses Focus More on Real Issues

STEM教育提倡从生活中的实际工程问题出发,开展一系列探究实践活动,培养学生解决实际问题的能力。但工程问题一定要建立在真实基础上的,为了让STEM教育中的工程问题更具有真实性,更符合学生的认知,笔者认为需要从两个方面思考:一是要关注社会中存在的真实问题,将它们转化为学生可以研究的、有意义的课题;二是当实际问题过于困难、不利于学生研究时,教师可选取部分学生可以理解的问题进行研究。

STEM education advocates starting from the actual engineering problems in life,carrying out a series of inquiry and practice activities,and cultivating students’ability to solve practical problems.However,engineering problems must be based on reality.In order to make engineering problems in STEM education more authentic and more in line with students’cognition,the author believes that we need to think from two aspects:first,we should pay attention to the real problems existing in society and turn them into meaningful topics that students can study;Second,when the practical problems are too difficult for students to study,teachers can choose some problems that students can understand for research.