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Bring Fashion Tech into your Classroom
We presented Makefashion Edu to the teachers at Edtech Guangzhou to show them several ways to bring fashion tech into their classrooms. This is an edited version of that workshop to hopefully inspire others to do the same. It can be through our platform or something you design; we hope teachers will embrace the power and accessibility of fashion tech!
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Fashion Tech Ideas
Workshop Insights
In this workshop, we were introducing fellow teachers to the idea of Fashion Tech. We brought MakeFashion Edu photos and materials, but overall we just want to get educators excited about using technology and wearables to give students story-telling platforms.
The workshop was fully booked, and we’ve already heard from some of the attendees working on their own programs! It can take a school a full year to add a program, so we are pretty happy to see a few quick changes this time around.
3D Design in Primary Schools: A University Research Study
3D Modeling and Printing is a super fun and useful engineering activity. Lots of educators know that it has a place in the classroom, but run into trouble when trying to get approval for funding or training. Thank you Macquarie University’s Department of Educational Studies! They followed 24 classes of K through Grade 2 students for 1 year, and created a huge report of their 3D Modeling and Printing educational findings. Complete with statistics, formal tests, academic theories and reflections, this thing is 279 pages long! If you need justification for your program, print this bad boy out and bring it to your next formal meeting.
Materials
3D printers, 3D Printing School Programs, Leopoly.com (a quick way to start designing)
Starter Guides
Easy 3D Printing Class, Thingiverse.com (easily download 3D files that are ready to print!)
3D Lesson Insights
This is a real win for the maker education, and I’m eagerly awaiting this report to be picked apart and referenced in smaller, more consumable formats. Just to add a small contribution to that, check out page 111, “Screen Recording Summaries by Year Group”. See the multi-page table below? Read a few of those blocks, and you will have a good idea for how a typical 3D design lesson can go. A lot of teachers aren’t sure how fast or slow students should be moving through the materials, and I think these little blocks do a great job for informing teacher expectations.
3D Printing for Calculus by Sue Francis
We went to EdTechGZ in Guangzhou, China on Oct 27 2018 and saw this great workshop by Sue Francis, high school math teacher at AISG. This is the best example we’ve seen of integrating 3D printing into a traditional academic class. Thanks to Sue Francis for letting us film and share this, and thanks to AISG for hosting EdTech for free every year.
Check out the video made by our resident maker Mike Shaw here: https://youtu.be/O63kPj3TEeI
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