STEM via Co-teaching. e-me Case Study

Abstract

Protecting the environment through energy saving and the use of alternative energy sources is everyone's main concern. Students are activated by implementing STEM methodology, in order to provide sustainable solutions and save energy in their school environment, which directly concerns them. The purpose of the paper is to present the implementation of STEM activities by utilizing the digital e-me classroom. e-me is a Greek digital educational environment for students and teachers in primary and secondary education and the connection of its members is done through the Panhellenic School Network. The teaching concerns the blended learning, synchronous, asynchronous and experiential learning via co-teaching as a case study, in the context of the Skills Laboratory, which is an initiative in Greek curriculum and focus to cultivate students’ skills. The activation of the students during the synchronous, asynchronous and experiential learning via co-teaching in the digital environment of e -me, the self-evaluation of students with rubrics, the portfolios of the students, the survey of students’ views with a questionnaire, the final knowledge tests and the observation by the teachers showed that students seem to have acquired knowledge of programming through STEM, cultivated their critical thinking in the environment of the digital classroom e-me, where the visualization and the collaborative environment favored the co-construction of knowledge.