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3D Printing

Curriculum Connections in Elementary Schools

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● Teacher at a K-8 School in Scarborough (TDSB)● Husband/Father● M.Ed in Digital Technology

Agenda

○ Why 3D Printing in Schools?

○ Cost and Getting Started

○ Design Process is Everything!

○ Ideas for Making - Curriculum Connections

○ App Review (Tinkerplay, Makerbot Printshop,

123D Apps - Design, Sculpt, Catch, Make)

○ Play time!

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What is 3D Printing?

3D printing is a technology that allows users to turn any digital file into a three dimensional physical product. 3D printing also allows for massive customization and unlike with music and movies, everything that is printed is protected by copyright.

One of the good things about this printing technology is that it changes the dynamic of consumer culture.

In other words, it turns users from being passive consumers to active creators!

Louisville factory: 100 printers, 3 employees

Xavier students use 3D printing to create prosthetic leg for three-

legged service dog

BioBots Is A 3D Printer For Living Cells

Human Trials of 3D Printed Bone

to Begin This Month as Chinese

Unveil PCPrinter BCTM

Why 3D Printing in Schools?

✱ STEM Connections & 21st Century Learning (Communication, Creativity, Collaborative, Critical Thinkers)

✱ Fosters creative thinkers and reflective learners. If you can imagine it you can make it.

✱ Process of Design (Empathy, Brainstorm, Design, Make, Test, Evaluate)

✱ 3D printing is not just for D&T… Artistic sculptural forms can be designed and made; Geographers can model 3D terrain; Mathematical shapes can be modelled; Architectural and historical buildings/structures studied as 3D models; Moulds for food products; Cells, atoms, DNA and other scientific concepts can be modelled…

The Maker MovementBe a Part of the Maker Movement!

✱ Learning through experimentation, design and trial and error

✱ Creativity encouraged through invention and play

✱ Both high and low tech

Notice the similarity to teaching STEM?✱ Teach Knowing and Doing

✱ Create products and present

✱ Learning from failures and successes

✱ Allow for Creativity

✱ Make Collaboration central

✱ Start with Questions

How Much is a 3D Printer?

✱ You don’t need a 3D printer to start right now!

✱ Cost is around $1500 to start

Options

✱ Create and share (no printing)

✱ Send to a company for printing

✱ Buy a printer

Materials Cost● Filament cost is $30 - $50 per roll● Will make about 300+ chess-sized pieces● Filament recycling products available

The Design Process

Focus on the Process - Design

Source: www.cityprojectx.com

Problem-Based Learning / Engineering Design Process

Analyze the Problem

What do I know… What do I need to know…

How and where will I find it...

Problem-Based Learning / Engineering Design Process

Analyze the Problem

What do I know… What do I need to know…

How and where will I find it...

Good Questions and Inquiry

http://rightquestion.org/make-just-one-change/

“Good questions are those that force students to challenge their taken for granted assumptions and see their own underlying biases. Oftentimes the answer to a good question is irrelevant—the question is an insight in itself. The only answer to the best question is another good question.”

- (M. Wesch, A portal to media literacy, University of Manitoba, podcast, 2008)

Inquiry Questions

Adapted from: www.questioning.org/mar05/essential.pdf

Grades K to 3 Grades 4 to 6 Grades 7 to 9

What makes a good friend?

What makes a bad storm?

How can we eat well?

Why do you suppose the rain falls down?

If you could change the town we live in, how would you make it better?

What are the traits of a good leader?

What makes a fair punishment?

What makes one writer more powerful than another?

How could you invent a better city?

How do you know if a law is just?

How is a hero different from a celebrity?

Which leader of the previous century relied most on propaganda and appeals to fear?

Web- Based Design Software

✱ SketchUp (Google)

✱ TinkerCAD

✱ 3DTin

✱ 123 Design

Downloaded Software:● 3D Crafter (Windows)● Blender● Wings3D

iPad Software

✱ Tinkerplay

✱ 123D Design

✱ 123 Sculpt

✱ 123 Catch

✱ 123 Creature

● Use the xBox Kinect hardware (Scanner 1414) and a new computer with an nVidia graphics card

3D Scanning

✱ Skanect - download the free software to scan

Thingiverse.com

Ideas for Integrating 3D Printing

• Create and design characters for Stop Motion animation

• City Project X• Board Games• Product Design• Geometric Shapes to build castles• Autodesk http://digitalsteam.autodesk.

com/subjects• Any STEM related project

Grade 3 Math Lesson

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mrk3nzXvoyI

Tips for Getting Started

● Abandon the ‘sage on the stage’ Socratic method of teaching and embrace the ‘guide on the side’ approach as a co-learner

● Start with a club or group

● Don’t mark or grade the results, assess the process

● Allow for student directed learning

Credit: Dian Schaffhauser 12/11/13The Journal3D Printing in the Classroom

Ideas for “Making”

• Lego We Do

• Little Bits

• Makey Makey

• Arduino

• 3D Design Club (myminifactory.com)

Next Steps

1. Create a Makerspace in your school

2. Maker Fair/ICT Marketplace in your FOS

3. Twitter

4. Connect to Deeper Learning with Inquiry

Create a MakerSpace

Photo credit: http://renovatedlearning.com/tag/programs/

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