Design Sprint: Enhancing STEAM and engineering education through agile prototyping and testing ideas

Research on the Training Mode of Children's Engineering Thinking with the Concept of STEAM Education

“…(1) to analyze the physical and mental development characteristics of the research objects and understand their existing knowledge and experience; to determine the appropriate research topic following the characteristics of the research objects; the activity theme should be close to children's actual life and the content should be simple rather than too specialized for them. These aspects are in good agreement with the study of Arce et al (2022), whose study is dedicated to enhancing STEAM and engineering education through agile prototyping and testing ideas.…”

“…Chinese scholars have carried out a lot of practical research on the improvement of children's engineering thinking capacity under the concept of STEAM education, including the engineering education project experiment "Wooden Workshop" (Arce et al, 2022). Related research has been studied from the perspective of engineering and technology, based on the excellent traditional Chinese culture, by transforming scientific inquiry activities into the form of STEAM education activities through the expansion of the platform of the course, for the cultivation of students' "engineering and technology" literacy (Wu, 2018;Anisimova et al, 2020).…”

Not just for decoration: How the arts complement science, technology, engineering, and mathematics learning.

“…Several studies have incorporated arts into STEM courses and examined their effects on student performance (Arce et al, 2022; Chen et al, 2022; Cheng et al, 2022; Erol et al, 2023; Fernández-Morante et al, 2022; Ju et al, 2022; Khamhaengpol et al, 2022; Timotheou & Ioannou, 2021; Weng et al, 2023). In these studies, the arts were not merely used as decoration; rather, they were presented through strategies, including arts/esthetic, contextual understanding, creativity, and combinations of these.…”

“…Contextual understanding strategies in STEM courses refer to encouraging the consideration of sociocultural contexts or personal circumstances within scientific topics (Arce et al, 2022; Fernández-Morante et al, 2022; Ju et al, 2022). In line with sustainable development, Fernández-Morante et al (2022) examined the effects of infusing the humanities, arts, and social sciences into STEM fields.…”

“…However, the course has not yet been verified. Arce et al’s (2022) STEAM courses considered individuals’ personal circumstances by assisting 56 college students in creating 3D designs of ear savers based on the needs of children, older adults, and individuals with impairments. The participants showed favorable satisfaction after the courses, and their product grades were higher than their final exam marks.…”