Development of teaching materials for disaster prevention education using 3D printers

2018 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 16K12790
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Educational technology
• Research Institution: Nara University of Education
• Principal Investigator: FURUTA Takehiro 奈良教育大学, 教育連携講座, 准教授 (60453825)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 青木 智史 天理大学, 参考館, 学芸員 (20507842)
• Research Collaborator: NAKAMURA Takehiro
• Project Period (FY): 2016-04-01 – 2019-03-31
• Keywords: 3Dプリンタ / 防災教育 / メディアの活用 / 課題探究的な活動

Outline of Final Research Achievements

In this research, we investigated the availability of educational use of 3D printerｓ. It was shown in what subject and scene the 3D printer can be utilized and what kind of problem there is in the utilization for educational use, especially in the disaster prevention education, while having teachers, students who want to be a teacher, and elementary, junior high, and high school students use experience of 3D printers. In addition, the possibility of development to problem solving learning using 3D printer was shown.

Free Research Field

オペレーションズ・リサーチ

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

3Dプリンタのその有用性にもかかわらず，学校現場に普及しているとはいえない．3Dプリンタを使った教材開発およびそれを用いた学習活動について，学校現場と協力して追究することで，その活用方法およびそのために必要な支援等について具体化することができた．本研究課題の成果をさらに発展させることで，より効果的な3Dプリンタの教育利用につながると考える．