This video is one of the final requirements for Dr. Glen Bull’s MacArthur Digital Media and Learning Competition submission. The submission requests funding for the development and creation of Fab@School laboratories that feature curriculum adapted for digital fabrication in elementary schools as well as the establishment of an online, open-source library for sharing and disseminating …
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General Mills and Post: Poor Mathematicians?
This post is a redesign of Kris’s Cereal Box digital fabrication project. Although the tweaks that I describe move Kris’s elementary lesson into the middle school and high school realm, it could be altered to be more of a discovery-type experience for elementary students familiar with digital fabrication and ModelMaker. I came across a lesson …
Fab@School 3D Printing
Cross-posted on the Fab@Home blog. Personal manufacturing, digital fabrication, and 3D printing are terms and processes that aren’t foreign to Fab@Home users. With the publication of Chris Anderson’s Wired article entitled In the Next Industrial Revolution, Atoms Are the New Bits, a wider swathe of the general public now has these less-than-palpable ideas in their …
Digital Fabrication & Geometry
The text below is a “rough” literature review connecting digital fabrication systems/techniques to elementary students’ understanding of geometry. I decided to create a post with my work because I think that it could be a valuable resource for people other than my professor and me. I have included links in appropriate places. Direct links to …
Desktop Manufacturing in K12 Schools
Fast Company’s Jamais Cascio wrote an interesting article entitled The Desktop Manufacturing Revolution a couple of months ago. In the piece, Jamais describes the coming of a digital fabrication revolution when everyday people will be able to take a digital design, import it into a personal computer, and then send the file to specialized hardware …
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