Learning at Home | Remote Learning Resources | COVID-19 School Closures
Free courses, design challenges and resources to help teachers, students and parents learning at home
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Top 10 Learning Outcomes to Help Children Develop During COVID-19
I’ve recently been thinking about a young boy I taught in a Grade three class back in the late 1990s. Damir and his family had fled war-torn Bosnia, and he started school in Australia for the first time in his life as an eight-year-old with not a word of English. Damir was a bright, brave...
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5 Real-Life COVID-19 Problems & How To Help Students Develop An Innovation Mindset
There is a lot of talk about the negative impact the COVID-19 crisis might have on our children’s’ education. So I have been focussing on how we can minimise the damage and turn the situation into an opportunity to engage students in real-world problem-solving through resources like our free Learning at Home course and the...
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2 EdTech Experts Share Remote Learning Experiences, Advice & Tips | COVID-19
The coronavirus continues to cause worldwide, unprecedented disruption. Within education, teachers and school leaders continue to adjust their remote learning and school-based learning protocols to follow the latest advice from health experts, policies from state and federal governments and direction from their district and school leaders. It's a stressful, confusing and worrying time for teachers,...
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10 Design Challenges for Children To Help Create Positive Feelings During COVID-19
We are all navigating unchartered territory as we learn to cope with the rapidly unfolding consequences of COVID-19. Every day, we are seeing more and more schools close their doors and moving to remote models of learning. Social media is full of ideas, resources, advice, and cries for help as everyone scrambles to find new...
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How 2 Families Are Managing Their Kids' Learning at Home | Remote Learning Tips
Every family knows that there is no one-size-fits-all approach to parenting that works as so much depends on the ages of the children, individual personalities, the parents' work responsibilities, resources, the health of individual family members, finances, support from family and friends and countless other factors. In a similar way, there is no one single...
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2 STEM Teachers Share Remote Learning Experiences, Advice & Tips | COVID-19
The coronavirus has caused worldwide, unprecedented disruption. Within education, teachers and school leaders have spent the last few weeks and months frantically putting together remote learning programs and urgently setting up systems so that their students can continue learning at home during school closures. Educators and students alike are in completely unchartered waters and all...
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10 Ways to Tell that Children are Learning Effectively At Home | COVID-19 | Coronavirus
There is a lot of talk about the impact that COVID-19 is having and will continue to have on our children’s education. Parents are worrying that their children will fall behind, waste a year of schooling, or not learn anything while their schools are closed. Schooling is certainly going to look different over the coming...
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Free Learning at Home Course for Teachers & Parents | Remote Learning During COVID-19
To support teachers, students and families currently experiencing school closures due to COVID-19, our team have been working (remotely) around the clock on the new iteration of our new, FREE Learning at Home course. Makers Empire customers can access this course under their existing subscriptions. We have also extended our usual 14-day free trial period...
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10 Social Distancing & Self Isolation 3D Design Challenges | Teacher Resources | COVID-19
As the devastating impact of the Coronavirus pandemic is felt throughout the world we at Makers Empire are extremely concerned and worried. In Australia, we've watched as things have become exponentially more serious over the last few weeks. Many of our Makers Empire schools in countries around the world are closed or planning for closure....
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Teaching with Makers Empire
Be inspired by 100+ school case studies and interviews with teachers
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Creating Global Connections through a School Exchange Project During COVID-19
Makers Empire's Global Design Program pairs together two classes of students in different countries or cities to work on a collaborative 3D design project using Makers Empire’s 3D design software. Kate is the Visual Arts Teacher at St Michael's College in Australia and Karie is the Education Technology Specialist at County View and Stoner Prarie...
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How a teacher is helping Grade 1 and 4 students develop Design Thinking skills in India
Sana Noor is the Primary ICT Coordinator at Pathways School Noida, an IB World school in the suburbs of Delhi, India, with 1,400 students from early years up to grade 12. We noticed that Sana was tweeting about using Makers Empire with her students so we reached out to her to learn more. How have you...
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How a STEM teacher at a Rural School Teaches with 3D Printing and Makers Empire
Michael Freeborn is a K-4 STEM teacher at Turbotville Elementary, a rural school with 1,500 students, which is part of the Warrior Run School District in Turbotville, Pennsylvania. Previously, Michael was a first-grade teacher for fourteen years. Three years ago, he was asked to start a STEM program at his school with the vision to...
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8 West Melbourne Schools Showcase STEM Learning with Toyota Community Trust
Eight schools in Melbourne's West recently came together for a Showcase Day to celebrate the STEM learning they achieved with a $60,000 grant from the Toyota Community Trust and 3D technology and professional learning delivered by Makers Empire. The schools involved in the West Melbourne 3D Printing in Schools Project were Jackson School, St Alban's...
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How a Teacher Uses 3D Printing To Teach Entrepreneurship & STEM | Design Thinking | PBL
Luke Drain is a classroom teacher at Carlingford West Public School in Sydney. Luke came to teaching after studying IT and was fortunate to secure a position at Carlingford West shortly after he finished his degree. We spoke to Luke recently about how he is using 3D printing and Makers Empire to engage students in...
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Why a Technology Teacher Chose Makers Empire | Teaching Tech. Curriculum with 3D Printing
Ruth Hanson (below, right) is the Lower School Educational Technologist at Duchesne Academy, an all-girls school, which had the first 1-to-1 laptop program in Houston. Duchesne is a Sacred Heart School, guided by five goals: Faith, Community, Academics, Social Awareness and Personal Growth. Students are encouraged to be the best they can be and the...
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News from Makers Empire
Browse the latest product news and updates from Makers Empire
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Makers Empire App Update - New Design Replayer, Text-To-Speech, Better Experience
At Makers Empire, our tech, user experience and learning teams are always working to deliver a better app experience for students with improved learning outcomes. Most new app features are based on feedback provided during user testing sessions in classrooms or via emails sent to us by passionate Makers Empire users. In the latest update...
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Learning at Home | Coronavirus | COVID-19 | Resources for Teachers and Parents
To the worldwide Makers Empire community, At Makers Empire, we've been shocked and concerned as we've witnessed the distressing effects of the COVID-19 Coronavirus. Makers Empire is used by 1+ million users in 40+ countries who create 90,000 new 3D designs every day. Many of these countries are already experiencing or planning for school closures....
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Share the Love | New Referral Program
At Makers Empire, we're privileged to work with 20,000+ teachers and 1+ million students in 40 countries. We love sharing your stories and videos, and we are thankful for all your feedback -- positive and negative -- which helps us build a better classroom product for you. We've always been grateful to educators and administrators...
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Thought Leadership
Posts by Mandi Dimitriadis, Director of Learning at Makers Empire. Be at the forefront of Design Thinking in schools.
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Failing to Succeed: 6 Habits of Successful 'Failers' That Teachers Should Know
This post is by Mandi Dimitriadis, Makers Empire's Director of Learning (pictured above, left). I spend a lot of time talking with teachers about the important role failure can play in learning. Backed by Carol Dweck’s mindset research and armed with all sorts of anecdotes about the power of design thinking, I can often...
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5 Ways Design & Technology Curricula are Changing and How Makers Empire Can Help
We hear a lot of talk about what it's going to take for our young people to thrive and survive in their 21st-century futures. It's become almost cliched to talk about 21st-century skills but it is fair to say that many of today's school students will be working in jobs that don't yet exist and...
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9 Ways Teachers Can Differentiate Design Tasks for Students
At Makers Empire we believe that every child can change their world. Our dream is to empower every student with the tools, skills and creative confidence they need, to be able to tackle challenges head-on and develop creative, innovative solutions to problems. We know that teachers play a major role in helping students develop the...
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Lesson Ideas and Student Challenges
Wondering how to use 3D design and 3D printing as an authentic teaching tool? Try these helpful ideas.
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7 Great 3D Design & 3D Printing Lesson Ideas for Book Week
During Book Week, many primary and elementary schools host a range of activities to encourage a love of reading and improvement in literacy levels. Many schools also host a Book Week Day where their students can dress up as a favourite book character. At Makers Empire, we love everything that gets students reading more so...
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Top Ten 3D Design Lesson Ideas Using Custom Avatar Parts in Makers Empire
Makers Empire is launching new custom avatar parts in its popular 3D design app, Makers Empire 3D. This update to the popular 3D modelling app is expected to be available from app stores and the Makers Empire site by mid-July, 2019. This new feature means students can create their own unique body parts and outfits,...
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5 Real-Life Examples of Teachers Using 3D Printing to Teach the ‘E’ (Engineering) in STEM
Are we teaching all the letters in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineer and Mathematics) or are some receiving more attention than others? If you look around, math and science are staples of education, while technology is integrated into many areas of student learning. But what about engineering? Engineering, the ‘E’ in STEM, is often overlooked, especially...
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Design Thinking Competitions
Challenge your students with our monthly in-app Design Thinking competitions
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Winners of the Bully Busters 3D Design Competition | Design Thinking Challenge
Every month, Makers Empire runs an in-app competition so that students can test their Design Thinking and 3D design skills against their peers from all over the world. We are glad to announce the winners of Makers Empire's Bully Busters competition, which ran in March 2020. This was the Bully Busters design brief for students:...
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Winners of the Year of the Rat Design Thinking Competition
Every month, Makers Empire runs an in-app competition so that students can test their Design Thinking and 3D design skills against their peers from all over the world. We are glad to announce the winners of Makers Empire's Year of the Rat Design Thinking competition, which ran in January and February 2020. This was the...
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Winners of the Makers Empire x Toyota Dream Car Design Thinking Competition
Every month, Makers Empire runs an in-app competition so that students can test their Design Thinking and 3D design skills against their peers from all over the world. We are glad to announce the winners of the Makers Empire x Toyota Dream Car competition which ran in February and March. This was the design brief...
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How To Guides (VIDEO)
Watch step-by-step videos to learn how easy it is to design in 3D
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Set Your Own Design Missions in Makers Empire | Mission Control - Ready to launch!
A short while ago we updated Teacher Missions to make it super easy for teachers to create 'Design Missions' for their students to complete in Makers Empire 3D. If you've never tried Design Missions before, you'll love the ability to set design missions or projects, assignments and work for students to complete in the Makers...
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New Make Your Own Avatar Parts | Fully Customise Your Makers Empire Avatar
850,000+ students currently use Makers Empire to design in 3D, learn about Design Thinking and STEM and develop 21st-century learning skills. One of the things students love about Makers Empire is the ability to customise their own avatar to represent them in the Makers Empire world. We've had countless requests from students for more avatar...
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How to Design a Harry Potter book cover using Makers Empire 3D (VIDEO)
In this video one of our young student users explains how to design a Harry Potter book cover using Makers Empire 3D modeling software. This is a great, easy to follow video to inspire younger students in the classroom who are new to 3D design and 3D printing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j50YM8bOgV4 [su_divider top="no" divider_color="#dfdfdf" margin="30"] Makers Empire:...
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3D Printing Tips and Guides
Expert tips and advice to ensure your 3D printing experience is a success
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Review of the Dremel 3D45 3D Printer for Elementary, Primary and Middle Schools
Introduction to the Dremel 3D45 For the past month or so we’ve been testing the new Dremel 3D45 3D printer. Dremel is a well-established brand in the USA for makers of all kinds and is renowned for its excellent customer support. In Australia, however, Dremel is currently more known for its rotary tools. Back in...
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Best Tips for Successful Printing with a FlashForge Inventor IIS 3D Printer
At Makers Empire, we regularly test 3D printers for their suitability to elementary, primary and middle school environments. We only suggest (and sell) 3D printers that we genuinely think are the best options for teachers. You can see which printers we recommend at our Best 3D Printers for Schools (America) and Best 3D Printers for...
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An Impressive New 3D Printer: Sindoh 3D Wox 1 Printer Review
At Makers Empire, we regularly test potential new 3D printers that could be suitable for elementary, primary and middle schools so we can recommend the best to our global community of educators. So we’ve spent the past two months testing a brand new 3D printer, the Sindoh 3D Wox 1. Sindoh is a little-known company based out...
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