Our branch campus in Guayaquil held the first meeting on educational innovation titled: "3D Didactic resources". Students talked about how these resources help people with disabilities in the classroom.

 

Participants attended conferences on 3d technology: design tools, materials, prototypes and 3D printing. "We want the products to be used in education processes and strengthen pedagogy as well as students' and professors' creativity", said Alice Naranjo, coordinator of the GIE-IDI research group. 

 

The topics discussed during this meeting were:

 

- Braille alphabet 

 

- Braille writing blocks 

 

- Geometric games 

 

- Brain, Skull 

 

- Stories, 3D drawing notebooks 

 

- Geometric figures 

 

- Pulleys, gear systems 

 

- Scales 

 

- Computer components, Mainboards, microprocessors

 

The resources that were presented are aimed at improving the teaching – learning process, "our contribution as students and as a university is meant to strengthen and improve educational innovation with the use of 3D technology", said Fransisco Poma, member of the GASOL research group.

 

Thanks to this initiative, there are education institutions that are using 3D didactic tools created by our students. 

 

This event was supported by the computer engineering major, UNESCO chairs, the information and communication technologies for disabilities research group (TICAD for its acronym in Spanish), INNOVA, RED RAITI and GASOL.