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Education is a long-term investment. If society is to reap the benefits of convergence technologies in decades to come, a convergence culture must be established at the precollege level. All students, regardless of their future careers, must have the opportunity to develop a strong foundation in systems thinking, grounded in a deep and flexible understanding of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM), the social sciences, the arts and the humanities. This chapter describes a conceptual framework for convergence learning in the formal precollege education setting. It is based on the successful Materials World Modules program developed for precollege students over a 22-year period at Northwestern University.
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Chang, R.P.H., Shanahan, J.M., Hsu, M. (2016). Precollege Convergence Education. In: Bainbridge, W., Roco, M. (eds) Handbook of Science and Technology Convergence. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07052-0_72
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