Abstract:

This research focuses on the evaluation of contemporary didactic approaches, at Secondary level of Technology Education, for electricity concepts and electrical circuits. Our proposed hybrid-teaching model is based on good practices of flipped classroom and STEM approach, according to literature review. To this end, our model takes into consideration the personalized learning needs of every student, sets specific learning goals to help each student improve his understanding for applied science STEM concepts. This paper highlights the importance of personalized teaching, but also collaborative methods, to promote students’ creativity, cognitive skills and enhance their learning capabilities. Our model promotes real experiments and the use of specialized software during learning process to analyse data and draw conclusions. Our initial statistical results reveal that our blend proposed model improves students’ ability to understand science concepts and promotes computational thinking skills.

Keywords:

STEM, Flipped classroom, Applied Sciences, Innovative Learning, Educational Technologies, Computational Thinking.