I would say my biggest problem now is getting students to closely evaluate their designs for precision and accuracy to make sure things are aligned, touching the workplane, grouped, etc. before they ask me to print.
Becky Wynne, Maryville Middle School (USA)
As many of you know, PrintLab’s mission is to accelerate the growth of 3D printing in education. We believe in its power to provide the next generation workforce with modern technical skills and maybe even more importantly, it’s power to develop soft skills in ways that can’t be done with pen, paper and textbooks.
However, we cannot ignore the fact that the integration of 3D printing in schools comes with its challenges and we feel that it is an important topic to discuss. Today we’re going to outline some of these challenges and talk about strategies teachers are taking to overcome them.
Rather than listening to our thoughts, we invited 14 of our pioneers to answer the following question – “Since you started teaching 3D printing, what has been your biggest challenge? And how did you overcome it?”. Let’s take a look at what they had to say!
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