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Climate Change

Another Dimension

By:

Brandon Bunnie

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Summary

Using the Prusa MK3S 3D Printer - Increasingly, 3D printers are showing up in digital classrooms and makerspaces. As a tool for education, a 3D printer provides the capacity to teach design and manufacturing skills in the comfort and convenience of a makerspace or classroom.

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It can also support the development of problem-solving skills. Digital industries often frame products in terms of the problems they can help solve. Learning to use a 3D printer is a useful prompt for getting students to identify challenges in their communities, and further to consider how they might use 3D-modelling software and fabrication to design solutions.

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