3D printing and its utilization for the challenges of the 21st century is a major component of the 5th Industrial revolution. Citizens, interact with technology innovations, transforming established regularities in major society sectors. During pandemic, citizens worldwide shared ideas and fabricate in house Personal Protective Equipment as also hospital care and diagnostic devices. Personalized low-cost prosthetic sockets, in future 3d printed organs, and in general a mass personalization of products revolutionizes manufacturing. This power of single persons, to create every kind of artifacts, makes it imperative to educate in formal framework future citizens.
This teacher training workshop follows the “TPACK framework” considering the educational process as a complex interaction between Technology, Pedagogy and Content Knowledge. Aims of this procedure include, to enhance teacher’s knowledge and cultivate skills in teaching digital design, as well as to propose a good practice on how to include 3d printing technology in their lessons to enhance student’s skills in digital design and additive manufacturing. Moreover, proposing the integration of 3d printing activities in curriculum we also set goals for student’s key skills, such as, the ability to form, design and construct prototypes of their imagination and to defend a cogent argument and innovative ideas to their colleagues.