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One big advantage of laser cutting as opposed to [[3D printing]] is that that the process is very fast and the result accurate. On the negative side, laser cutters are expensive and 2D cutting offers less possibilities than 3D additive manufacturing. | One big advantage of laser cutting as opposed to [[3D printing]] is that that the process is very fast and the result accurate. On the negative side, laser cutters are expensive and 2D cutting offers less possibilities than 3D additive manufacturing. | ||
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* [[Fab labs in education]] | |||
* [[3D printers in education]] | |||
Laser cutting is taught in used in engineering schools but also sometimes in general education. | Laser cutting is taught in used in engineering schools but also sometimes in general education. | ||
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* As a pretext for teaching vector drawing | * As a pretext for teaching vector drawing | ||
* As a pretext for teaching programming and mathematics | * As a pretext for teaching programming and mathematics | ||
* As a means to create teaching tools, e.g. Montessori-type activities, simulation games, | * As a means to create teaching tools, e.g. Montessori-type activities, simulation games, | ||
== Links == | == Links == | ||
Revision as of 18:32, 19 January 2017
Introduction
One big advantage of laser cutting as opposed to 3D printing is that that the process is very fast and the result accurate. On the negative side, laser cutters are expensive and 2D cutting offers less possibilities than 3D additive manufacturing.
See also:
Laser cutting is taught in used in engineering schools but also sometimes in general education.
Laser cutting can be used for various purposes:
- Design teaching
- Soft skills e.g. project management
- As a pretext for teaching vector drawing
- As a pretext for teaching programming and mathematics
- As a means to create teaching tools, e.g. Montessori-type activities, simulation games,
Links
Bibliography
- Buechley, L., Elumeze, N., & Eisenberg, M. (2006, June). Electronic/computational textiles and children's crafts. In Proceedings of the 2006 conference on Interaction design and children (pp. 49-56). ACM. (laser cutters are used to cut the outlines of augmented textiles)
- Blikstein, P. (2013). Digital Fabrication and ’Making’ in Education: The Democratization of Invention. In J. Walter-Herrmann & C. Büching (Eds.), FabLabs: Of Machines, Makers and Inventors. Bielefeld: Transcript Publishers.
- Eisenberg, M. (2011, March). Educational fabrication, in and out of the classroom. In Proceedings of Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education (pp. 884-891).
- Eisenberg, M., Eisenberg, A., Hendrix, S., Blauvelt, G., Butter, D., Garcia, J., ... & Nielsen, T. (2003, July). As we may print: new directions in output devices and computational crafts for children. In Proceedings of the 2003 conference on Interaction design and children (pp. 31-39). ACM.
- Kimberly Sheridan, Erica Rosenfeld Halverson, Breanne Litts, Lisa Brahms, Lynette Jacobs-Priebe, and Trevor Owens (2014) Learning in the Making: A Comparative Case Study of Three Makerspaces. Harvard Educational Review: December 2014, Vol. 84, No. 4, pp. 505-531.