Exploring the 3D Printing Process for Young Children in Curriculum-Aligned Making in the Classroom Conference Paper

abstract

• 2018 Association for Computing Machinery. With increasing focus on integrating 3D printing in educational settings, more emphasis needs to be placed on how to introduce young students to the complexities of the 3D printing process. Inspired by the patrons of 3D printer services, we engage children in a simplified 3D printing process. We conducted a study with two 3rdgrade public school science classes over 4 days, where students were tasked to print 3D designs they find online for use in a class presentation. Initial findings identify challenges within this process, and show indications of emerging interest towards 3D printing.

name of conference

• Proceedings of the 17th ACM Conference on Interaction Design and Children

authors

• Quek, Francis

published proceedings

• PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2018 ACM CONFERENCE ON INTERACTION DESIGN AND CHILDREN (IDC 2018)

author list (cited authors)

• Berman, A., Deuermeyer, E., Nam, B., Chu, S. L., & Quek, F.

citation count

• 15

complete list of authors

• Berman, Alexander||Deuermeyer, Elizabeth||Nam, Beth||Chu, Sharon Lynn||Quek, Francis

publication date

• June 2018

publisher

• Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)  Publisher

keywords

• 3d Printing
• Challenges
• Children
• Elementary School
• Interest
• Making
• Thingiverse

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1145/3202185.3210799

International Standard Book Number (ISBN) 13

• 9781450351522

start page

• 681

end page

• 686

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3202185.3210799