Why Tinkercad?
This virtual makerspace gives students opportunities to engage in creative and critical thinking. They learn how to develop, problem-solve, revise, and persevere through the process of creation. Students can even use 3D printers to bring their designs to life.
Tinkercad’s electronics platform allows students to virtually place and wire components to create a virtual circuit and then see how the components would respond in real life. Students could use this as a blueprint to make a real-life circuit, or they can add-in 3D design and print it with Tinkercad’s Circuit Assemblies.
Tinkercad is about to launch a new coding platform that uses drag-and-drop code blocks. Students order the blocks to define their design and then run the code to watch their design come to life. They can use this to create a GIF or export and print their completed design.
Using a unique invitation code, teachers can invite students to Tinkercad and moderate their accounts. Tinkercad is also a great collaborative tool. Students are able to work synchronously with one another in the same file and work as a team to produce designs.
How to use Tinkercad?
Examples of Tinkercad
Click Here to explore their online gallery. Note that you can actually copy any existing design and then tinker with it yourself.
Guest Blogger
Raina Burditt