Blog - Inventionland Education

If a student or colleague asked you what the difference between a 3D printer and a laser cutter was, what would you say? Is this the type of question you can answer confidently with your head held high, or the type that would have you faking an injury to avoid answering… our students aren’t the only ones who do this, right? As educators, it’s important that we continuously keep up with the latest technological innovations to ensure that we can give our students the proper tools and training to succeed in the real world. The problem is, when you’re outside of the Maker world, resources used to explain these technologies are often technical, daunting, and inaccessible to those in the field of education.

Since fall’s officially begun, one might think that the temperatures would be dropping to cool new levels. Instead, at the Inventionland Institute, we’re facing a major technological warming! In fact, you could go so far as saying that autumn’s looking pretty STEAMy around here!

Without a doubt, 3D printing, STEM education and project-based learning are three aspects of our inventing curriculum that we tout when we’re meeting with educators who are interested in upping the innovative options around their schools. But, in addition to helping institutions implement those aspects into their coursework through our curriculum, we’re actually able to help them add new technologies in a much more literal way, too.

Behind the scenes at the Inventionland Institute, we’ve been working on creating digital badges that our next semester of enrolled students will have the opportunity to earn.