Full Description
This open-access volume explores how Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming STEM education and reshaping teaching and learning for today's world. AI is no longer a distant promise; it is actively redefining classrooms, challenging educators to rethink pedagogy, curriculum, and student engagement. Focusing on the powerful intersection of AI and STEM, the book showcases innovative learning strategies, future-ready curriculum models, and cutting-edge approaches to teacher professional development. It demonstrates how AI can strengthen critical thinking, creativity, collaboration, and ethical awareness while offering practical solutions to real-world educational challenges. Combining advanced AI tools with evidence-based instructional design, the volume provides actionable insights that inspire educators, researchers, teachers, and learners. With its inclusive, forward-looking perspective, this book serves as an essential guide for educators, policymakers, and researchers seeking to modernize STEM education and prepare students for an AI-shaped future.
Contents
Chapter 1: What Can a Century of Scholarship on Teacher Professional Development Teach Us About Equipping Today's STEM Teachers to Use GenAI Effectively and Ethically?.- Chapter 2: A Conceptual Framework for Teacher Agency in STEM Education in the AI Era.- Chapter 3: Redefining STEM Education Approach for an AI-Driven Future.- Chapter 4: The Janus-Faced Nature of AI in STEM Education.- Chapter 5: Integrating Artificial Intelligence into the Engineering Design Process: Transforming STEM Education.- Chapter 6: Design of STE(A)M Learning in the Context of Modern Technologies.- Chapter 7: Assessment and Evaluation in STEM Education in the Age of AI.- Chapter 8: Design Decision-Making in the Age of Artificial Intelligence.- Chapter 9: Preparing Teachers for STEM Education in the Age of AI: A Literature and Projects Review within the Slovenian Educational Context.- Chapter 10: STEAM Teacher Education and Learning with Emerging Technologies in the Digital Age.- Chapter 11: STEM-Reforming Standard Curriculum Concepts through AI Integration: A Case of Chemical Reactions.- Chapter 12: STEM-Reforming Standard Curriculum Concepts through AI Integration: A Case of Chemical Reactions.- Chapter 13: Generative AI in Initial STEM Teacher Education: A Transformative and Situated AI Literacy.- Chapter 14: The Future of STEM: Socioecological STEM Education.
