Towards the Promotion of STEM and Technology Education in K-12 Schools

Abstract

The primary task of society and the academic community is to motivate young people from an early age to study in technology-based fields. In the Republic of Serbia, the reason for the increasing popularity of professions that cover STEM fields, but also the application of computer technology and AI support within K-12 schools, is that the professions in the IT sector, as well as engineering science, have proven to be extremely profitable and in that sense, very desirable for young people who choose these desired courses while still in high school. Limited or insufficient knowledge of the advantages that new technological education offers to young people in K-12 education and professions in the Republic of Serbia was noticed. This would mean a more intensive promotion of STEM and AI fields in the educational system, which would be carried out not only within earlier teaching activities, but also numerous extracurricular and other activities that children and young people attend at an early age