Development STEAM Gamification for Vocational Innovators’ Creativity and Innovation Skills

Abstract

The sustainable development of the country has its foundation on the development of human resource. Qualified people should be equipped with knowledge, skills, good attitude, and ethics. Vocational education is responsible for developing skilled labors focusing on the integration of both theory and practice to create innovative work according to their specialization. This will lead to the successful application in their workplaces or their entrepreneurship in the future. With the needs mentioned above, the design of the curriculum should be innovative, up-to-date, and suitable with the learners’ level together with the context of digital society. The learning process should develop learners’ potential to achieve the target of the vocational education and marketing requirement which continually increases on both quantity and quality of the labors.

The development STEAM Gamification for Vocational Innovators’ Creativity and Innovation Skills can be defined as an innovative design of the instruction to promote innovative skills of vocational students. This idea is based on STEM education which is the integration of knowledge from science, technology, engineering and math. The concept of gamification learning is to drive learners to actively coordinate in teaching and learning with fun atmosphere suitable for vocational students. Moreover, this concept focuses on the development of creative, intelligent, and cautious skills penetrating and motivating learners to creative innovation. This will create learners’ opportunity on critical thinking, planning, and monitoring their innovation.