HOW TO MAKE LEARNING IN STEM MEANIGFUL FOR THE MILLENNIUM GENERATION
HOW TO MAKE LEARNING IN STEM MEANIGFUL FOR THE MILLENNIUM GENERATION

Author(s): Dagnija Cedere, Rita Birzina, Tamara Pigozne, Elena Vasilevskaya
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Education, School education
Published by: Scientia Socialis, UAB
Keywords: meaningful learning; Millennium generation; teaching and learning principles; STEM learning
Summary/Abstract: The education of today more and more encounters the teaching and learning problems of young adults therefore it is topical to find out how to make the teaching/learning of the Millennium generation meaningful. This issue is especially important in STEM education. The survey involved Grade 10-12 students of Latvia, in total 256 students. Spearman’s correlations and Kruskal-Wallis test were used in the data analysis. The obtained results showed that students- millennials as regards the learning of STEM subjects can be described as real-life oriented, digitally educated who want to participate actively in the teaching/learning process and who want to receive the feedback.

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