기술교과 ‘정보통신기술’ 단원의 주제중심 STEAM 교육 프로그램 개발

Abstract

This research aims to select the themes in the ‘information and communications technology’ unit in the technology studies in order to provide desirable cases of STEAM integrated education in the ‘information and communications technology’ unit in the technology subject, and to develop the STEAM integrated educational program of the selected themes. The contents of the research to achieve the purposes of this research are summarized as follows. First, the procedural model for the development of the STEAM integrated educational program of the ‘information and communications’ unit in the middle school technology studies presented roughly 4 stages: the preparation stage, the development stage, the practice stage and the improvement stage. The preparation stage is composed of the selection of integration types, the analysis of the curriculum, and the derivation of theme selection criteria, and the development stage presented the selection of themes, establishing educational objectives, the selection of learning content, the preparation of the theme net, organization of learning content, the statement of instructional objectives, composition and preparation of content. In the practice stage, the developed program is put into practice for the students, and in the improvement stage, the program is revised and supplemented by the evaluations made by the specialists and students based on the practiced program. Second, the developed STEAM program was developed into the program summary map, the textbook for students, teachers’ manual and multimedia teaching materials, etc., and after the validity was secured through experts’ verification, it was revised and supplemented and applied to actual classes. Third, the results of the learners’ evaluation of the developed STEAM program showed that the degree of satisfaction with the program was high with the average score of the entire questions being 4.03 on a five-point scale. As the teachers also evaluated the developed STEAM program as very effective, the opinions of learners and teachers were collected and the program was finally improved and completed