3-D printer enlivens students’ ideas

In the corner of Jason Steele’s classroom at Oblock Junior High School in Plum, Pa., two 3-D printers whirred softly as they slowly created two objects out of blue plastic thread.

Mr. Steele is using the four printers in his eighth-grade technology education classes to allow students to develop a three-dimensional object on a computer and turn it into a physical product.

The 3-D printers could completely change the way objects are manufactured — instead of finding a supplier, ordering an item, paying for shipping and waiting for delivery, manufacturers will be able to make their own objects in a matter of minutes or hours.

Mr. Steele wants his students to be ready.

And it’s important for them to learn a "digital language," he said.

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