Developing an Integrated Teaching Module for the Topic of Smart Industry in the Museum

Abstract

The teaching of innovative technology in primary education in Taiwan is not enough at present. The National Science and Technology Museum cooperated with the university and the vocational high school to deliver the smart industry knowledge to senior high school students. Here, this research presented a 5-step design procedure to systematically develop an integrated teaching module for various issues. It is a demonstration example that the research generated an integrated teaching module for the smart industry’s issues by the design procedure. The knowledge database of module content was built and applied multiple teaching ways to enhance students’ attention. The module developed an e-book, one augmented reality (AR) game, one board game, and one package of teaching aids for maker education to introduce the historical developments of industrial revolutions, the internet of things, the smart vehicles, and the industrial robots. Furthermore, the learning outcome and the generic learning outcomes (GLOs) are the evaluation index and the evaluation method, respectively. By the framework of the GLOs, the questionnaire with a 5-level Likert scaling was designed for evaluating the module. By the experiment of demonstration teaching, the statistical analysis revealed that either students from the engineering or non-engineering departments have positive learning outcomes. A slight difference is in the category of “Activity, Behavior, and Progression”. The research inferred that the culture of the tested school and the students’ background could affect the learning outcomes. The result indicated that the integrated module is useful to science popularization learning of technological issues.