{"id":4249,"date":"2015-09-15T03:59:48","date_gmt":"2015-09-15T07:59:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aptgadget.com\/?p=4249"},"modified":"2015-11-28T13:50:28","modified_gmt":"2015-11-28T18:50:28","slug":"3d-printing-in-education-inspiration-involvment-and-love-for-technologies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aptgadget.com\/tr\/3d-printing-in-education-inspiration-involvment-and-love-for-technologies\/","title":{"rendered":"E\u011fitimde 3D Bask\u0131: ilham, kat\u0131l\u0131m ve teknoloji sevgisi"},"content":{"rendered":"

3D printing\u00a0<\/a>is a technological marvel that empowers people in many different ways. We\u2019ve already talked about inspiring examples of numerous startups and individuals achieving success thanks to 3D Printing<\/a>, and about how big businesses like Ford make use of 3D printing to great benefit for themselves<\/a>, and we\u2019ve seen how 3D printing gives us freedom to be creative in making gifts<\/a>, but we\u2019ve just began scratching the surface. How about the drastic changes to the better that 3D printers can bring about in education system?<\/p>\n

Children are our future and the future of our children strongly depends on education system. It\u2019s no secret that the current education system is lacking and needs some improving. In this article we\u2019re going to talk about and give some examples of how this can be done with the help of 3D printing.<\/p>\n

One of the biggest drawbacks of the current education system is that it aims at pumping students\u2019 heads full of fragmented information with little regard for the motivation, the courses aiming at successful passing of artificial tests and not the depth of understanding or integrity of knowledge. It is well known that students make much better progress when they\u2019re interested in the subject and are eager to know more about it. It\u2019s all very well and pretty obvious, you\u2019ll say, but how do we make them interested? One way would be to give students projects, tasks that they have to perform, goals they have to achieve. When a student gets direction, when he has a goal, he starts learning in a fundamentally more active and natural way: he finds himself facing questions he must find answers for, and with help of his supervisor, he is looking for the ways to go around whatever problems he faces. In this mode he learns actively, knowing that he needs the knowledge as opposed to being pumped with the data one doesn’t feel like he really needs. There are countless examples of creative teachers organizing various projects to boost students\u2019 interest in this or that subject, and thanks to 3D printing opportunities of those people have grown drastically. 3D printing helps teachers to organize the learning process in a more engaging way, and here\u2019s a great example: the video below tells us how Vinny Garrison made mechanics and physics much more interesting, understandable and engaging for his class of 8inci<\/sup> graders by organizing drag racing competitions, where every student designs and prints his own car and then races it against the clock and against other students\u2019 cars. It really motivates students to be active and creative in designing a car that would be lighter and faster than other cars and children get to feel the laws of physics (lighter means faster and so on) in action.<\/p>\n