Designing Mobile Application for STEM: Building Individual Interest and Supporting Creative and Innovative Thinking Skills

Abstract

This paper explains the design of a mobile application that is aimed to support the development of creative and innovative skills using stories as the external factors to create and maintain students’ long-term individual interests in STEM area. In this paper, first, we discussed the connection between individual interests and creative – innovative thinking process. Then, we described research proved pedagogical methods, which based on using stories to build and maintain students’ individual interests. Following that we illustrated the design of mobile application that applies the pedagogical methods into practice. In the discussion part, we discussed the potential use of the application as well as future follow-up research studies.