Are you providing STE(A)M activities in formal and non-formal education?

Are you a STE(A)M educator or teacher who would like to share your activities and expertise?

Do you want to be involved in the European project STEAMonEdu?

Become part of the European STEAMonEdu community!

Learn how to evolve the scientific skills of students in combination with art skills, like creativity, innovative spirit, or openness for change!

How to join? Register on the STEAMonEdu platform where you can already find interesting STE(A)M learning activities and resources. By joining now, you can stay connected with the project consortium, participate in the project development, find like-minded colleagues, share best practices and get involved in the project activities.

Share your best practices!

In preparation of the Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) “Professional development of STE(A)M educators” in 2021, the STEAMonEdu project consortium is searching for best practices in STE(A)M education, mostly in Germany, Greece, Italy, Romania, and Spain but also in whole Europe. You can support the research by registering on the STEAMonEdu platform and entering your educational activities that you have already implemented in real lessons or learning activities with children and youth.

If you have questions or you need any support to register on the platform or to enter your STE(A)M learning activities, please contact info@daissy.eap.gr.

The winners of the SteamonEdu Photo Contest show fragments of the creative STEAM learning from the different schools and projects in the project countries.

Technology is changing our society at a dizzying pace and with it, the learning processes of children in education and training. STEAM education, which stands for five subjects: Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics and Arts, helps to promote a series of skills and knowledge that helps them innovate, imagine and solve.

In the first quarter of 2021, STEAMonEdu launched a photography contest through its platform with the aim of collecting the day-to-day STEAM activities of the different schools and partner projects. A total of 67 photographs have been sent.

A jury made up of project professionals have evaluated the pieces and have chosen the three winning images based on the criteria of active participation, aesthetic quality, motivating or effective to explain the phenomenon or concept of STE (A) M education.

Three finalist images

The three finalist images reflect practical training, where students learn and work in a real way through experimentation and STEAM methodology while teachers provide the necessary tools for students to acquire autonomy and use their knowledge profitably and enriching.

The first award: Project STEM “Mr. Science” by Alina Frățilă

The project «Mr. Science» aims to optimize the quality of primary education with the help of more motivating, stimulating and effective learning contexts, based on active learning and problematization, contexts that prepare students to adapt to the requirements of the society of the 21st century, training their digital skills. The educational project aims to promote active learning and problem-based learning (PBL) as strategic educational approaches in primary education. «Active learning has many benefits for education. And it facilitates the formation of basic knowledge, as well as non-technical skills such as analytical and critical thinking, entrepreneurship, the ability to collaborate in multidisciplinary groups, etc.», explains Alina Frățilă.

The second award: STEM Activity with Arduino by Adnan Akyüz

Using the SCAMPER thinking technique, the image reflects how students use the rain sensor in Arduino projects for a very different purpose. At the end of the event, the students examined the designs they created by combining the laws of physics and technology in a single process. They chose designs with the most efficient and ideal cost/benefit ratio. «Going beyond the known, thinking differently and being creative emerged as activities that encouraged creativity. The future belongs to those who make a difference «, explains Adnan Akyüz.

The third award: STEAM in my School by Nectara

The photo reflects a very interesting and creative STEAM activity. The students were able to work with different techniques such as Scape Room, to help find information about different tasks and laboratory techniques, to see how to obtain paper and purify water. Finally, they built a tower of spaghetti.

By Colectic

The Greek Ministry of Education and Religion has officially announced its initiative for collecting STEM and STEAM school projects through a public open call to all the Greek schools of primary and secondary education. The call is addressed to all Greek educators willing to share their prototype educational material in the context of implementing a STEM or STEAM school project.

Regional Directorate of Primary and Secondary Education of Western Greece welcomes and supports this initiative in its implementation which is actually bringing Greek Education a step closer to the preparatory actions for forming a concise and well-structured STEM or/and STE(A)M Educational Policy on the National Level.

The promotional material of those projects will be including students’ texts up to 300 words long, photographs (up to 5 photographs per project), videos (up to 2 videos per project with a link from an external channel) and art creations (up to 2 per project).

All the prototype material will be uploaded on the dedicated website in the category “Innovation”. Of course, the content should not be containing direct or indirect advertisements of private companies’ products or services. GDPR rules should be taken into account and of course, parents’ consent forms should be signed and collected in case students’ faces are shown in the photos or videos.

By RDEWG

Photo by Jeswin Thomas on Unsplash

Assessment of Transversal Skills in STEM is an innovative policy experimentation project conducted across 8 EU countries and involving 12 educational institutions. It aims to enhance digital assessment of students’ transversal skills in STEM. Drawing on key ideas and theories of STEM educational policy, formative assessment, use of digital learning tools, and integrated STEM education the project developed an overarching conceptual framework that underpinned a training and development programme for teachers. Teachers in 107 schools in seven European countries worked with teacher mentors to help teachers reflect on and develop their teaching practices to teach students key STEM skills via learning projects aiming to have a real-work impact and address the UN’s sustainable development goals.

EDEN, European Distance E-learning Network, has organised the webinar ‘Assessment of STEM transversal skills from conceptual framework to real- world problems’ on Wednesday, 1 December 2021, at 17:00 CET.

The session will consist of presentations followed by a discussion

This presentation will feature tales spun from theoretical frameworks to classroom practices. Dr. Eamon Costello will first give an overview of the project and discuss the topic of real-world skills, a concept of contestation in the STEM educational discourse. Following the overview, Dr Eva Hartell will present the project implementation in Sweden where the research team worked in partnership with schools and parents on projects that allowed students to explore and affect their real world. Lastly, teacher Alberto Sacido will share an inspirational story of the ATS STEM pilot implementation undertaken in Rosalía de Castro High School, Spain, with his enterprising students in a project about Covid-19.

Register to take part in the webinar.

By AD