Abstract

JARILLO AGUILAR, Isaac Antonio. Digital Fabrication Laboratories (FabLab) and its implementation in basic education. A systematic review. RIDE. Rev. Iberoam. Investig. Desarro. Educ [online]. 2023, vol.14, n.27, e513.  Epub Oct 27, 2023. ISSN 2007-7467.  https://doi.org/10.23913/ride.v14i27.1560.

The literature review realized on this research offers a perspective about Digital Fabrication Laboratories (FabLab) and how they have been implemented at basic schools. The objective has been to know what has been published about digital fabrication and basic education though the last 10 years on specialized databases. The methodology that has been applied followed the next steps 1) Definition of the research criteria, 2) Search execution and 3) Results discussion. For that, it has been done documental research at SCOPUS and Web of Science databases applying a filter to show only articles that have been published between 2012 and 2022. As a result, it was found six articles about these topics, five of them were published at Europe and one at United States. From the five European articles, just one of them was published on a Spanish-speaking country, Spain.

The articles agree there are meaningful contributions when implementing FabLab at basic education schools, such as develop students’ creativity and innovation, it teaches them how to produce their own objects and products, teamwork, and collaboration. As well, most of these investigations indicate obtained information is a starting point to future projects that involve approaching girls and boys to digital fabrication.

Keywords : Digital Fabrication; basic education; systematic review.

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