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: Received: 8 February 2023 / Approved: 10 February 2023 / Online: 10 February 2023 (11:20:01 CET)
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Araya, R. Harnessing the Power of Online Inter-Class Tournaments to Imitate, Recombine, and Craft Innovative STEM Teaching Strategies. Preprints2023, 2023020192. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202302.0192.v1
Araya, R. Harnessing the Power of Online Inter-Class Tournaments to Imitate, Recombine, and Craft Innovative STEM Teaching Strategies. Preprints 2023, 2023020192. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202302.0192.v1
Araya, R. Harnessing the Power of Online Inter-Class Tournaments to Imitate, Recombine, and Craft Innovative STEM Teaching Strategies. Preprints2023, 2023020192. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202302.0192.v1
APA Style
Araya, R. (2023). Harnessing the Power of Online Inter-Class Tournaments to Imitate, Recombine, and Craft Innovative STEM Teaching Strategies. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202302.0192.v1
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Araya, R. 2023 "Harnessing the Power of Online Inter-Class Tournaments to Imitate, Recombine, and Craft Innovative STEM Teaching Strategies" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202302.0192.v1
Abstract
There are increasing calls in education for deeper integration of disciplines and better preparation for the personal and job challenges of a fast-changing and smarter society. Thus, we need to search for new effective didactic strategies. However, current classrooms are isolated. They practically never connect. This hinders the exchange of ideas. It inhibits imitation and recombination, the basic blocks of cultural evolution and innovation. In this paper, we analyze online inter-class tournaments. These are lessons where entire elementary or middle school classes interconnect synchronously and play an educational game. These are new types of academic activities, and only possible thanks to digital communication technology. In this paper, we examine four online tournaments, we analyze how feasible it is to carry them out and the benefits they bring. One tournament is for teaching machine learning and statistics. The second one teaches the conservation of momentum in physics and an engineering optimization challenge. The third tournament is for learning to solve word problems. The fourth one is for teaching natural and sexual selection along with developing statistical and population thinking. We found that these inter-class tournaments are feasible to implement in schools and that they are a promising mechanism to facilitate imitation, recombination, and innovation of teaching strategies.
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