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The STEAM transdisciplinary education method is crucial in the K-12 educational framework. Collaborative learning strategies are often used in STEAM transdisciplinary education to train students’ problem-solving and communication skills. In the process of collaborative learning, hands-on teaching activities can be more effective for students’ learning interests, and can also help them to understand and remember knowledge. In the teaching process, except for the application of teaching strategies that affect student learning, the discussion content during collaborative activities can facilitate instructors’ understanding of the situation and the process of learning so that they can adjust the course content and teaching mode. We conduct a pilot study to explore the discussion process during collaborative learning. We also develop a topic classification system to focus on the discussion topics of students during hands-on collaborative teaching activities. The accuracy rate of this system exceeds 80%. We classify the discussion content into three topic categories to observe the relationship between the discussion topics of each group and the learning effect. The results show that students who discuss more coding syntax exhibit improved learning effectiveness and outcomes.
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Lin, CJ., Wu, TT., Wang, TH., Pedaste, M., Huang, YM. (2022). Exploring Student Discussion Topics in STEAM Hands-On Collaborative Activity. In: Huang, YM., Cheng, SC., Barroso, J., Sandnes, F.E. (eds) Innovative Technologies and Learning. ICITL 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13449. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-15273-3_2
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