Welcome to the Course

We are delighted to work with the e-NABLE Volunteer Community to create and share this course. E-NABLE is an online global community of “digital humanitarian” volunteers from all over the world who are using their 3D printers to make free and low-cost prosthetic upper limb devices for children and adults in need. The open-source designs created by e-NABLE volunteers help those who were born missing their fingers and hands or who have lost them due to war, natural disaster, illness, or accidents.

There are approximately 20,000 e-NABLE volunteers (visit the e-NABLE forum) in over 100 countries who have delivered free hands and arms to an estimated 8,000 recipients through collaboration and open-source design to help those in under-served communities who have little to no access to medical care. By collaborating with schools through this online course platform, it is our goal to both educate students on the power of digital humanitarianism and increase the number of people positively impacted. Thank you for joining us and being an important part of this life-changing work.

Overview

In this course we will cover how you can integrate digital humanitarianism, tech, biology, and social, emotional learning into your classroom through e-NABLE’s empowering 3D printing prosthetics program. We will share lessons on activating student empathy to enhance understanding, connecting this work to your human anatomy and biology studies, as well as ways to integrate the language arts through opportunities to compare and contrast and create a personalized note with your completed prosthesis. 

ESTIMATED TIME COMMITMENT

6 hours teacher prep time

LEARNING OUTCOMES

  • Understand how to address limb differences with students.
  • Gain practical tools and activities to help students use empathy to understand limb differences. 
  • Connect prosthetic printing work to anatomy and biology learning goals. 
  • Guide students through the creation of a prosthetic hand prototype. 
  • Engage students in comparing and contrasting hand anatomy to that of their prototype/3D printed version. 
  • Facilitate students in the printing and assembly of a 3D printed hand. 
  • Empower students to see how they can use their resources to make an impact for others.

Please note that while this course will explore 3D printing, we assume that the learner has a basic understanding of 3D printing fundamentals and using their 3D printer. 

 

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