About New Futures Education Lab

New Futures Education Lab can support your program in the following ways:

21st Century Skills

A novel, award-winning approach to innovation pedagogy
Featuring an engaged and emergent model of creativity
Integrating digital design and innovation
Focus on real world skills: collaboration, creativity, critical analysis
Abstractly understand what the system is and the processes within it
How to be creative beyond the conservative ideation methods
Creativity models that precede Design Thinking
Setting up the conditions favoring innovative ecosystems
Communication skills and collaborative teamwork
Presence and focus outside of ones head
How to present and discuss the abstract
Creativity practices and collaboration that require problem solving skills
How to work with ambiguity, uncertainty, and complexity

3D Printing

Full Introduction to 3D Printing and design teaching for grades K–12
Digital design and 3D Printing in education — from the arts to the sciences and back to the humanities
What is 3D printing? And how to 3D print...
Best practices and 3D Printing techniques
Lesson plans, pedagogy
Games / exercises for the classroom

Software

A student centered and creativity focused approach to getting all students to design immediately
Introduction to teaching Tinkercad and / or Fusion
Intermediate to advanced techniques to leverage Fusion
How to design digital objects and best practices
How to teach digital design in the classroom

Hardware

Hands on with 3D printers
How to get more out of your printers
Printing with multiple types of materials, and dual extruders
Using dissolvable filament effectively
Advanced 3D printing techniques
Building out and maintaining the makerspace ecosystem
Designing functional 3D prints
New concepts of Innovation to support students meeting a changing future

Lesson Plans and Curriculum

Introduction to approaches for best teaching practices
Innovation models, lesson plans, templates, games, exercises and frameworks for the classroom
Step by step lesson plans customized in real time based on methodologies in our workshops
This program is also ideal for robotics coaches:
- How you can increase creativity and impact in the off season

Coaching and Mentorship

Monthly support and / or maintenance calls
Support the whole digital design ecosystem
Makerspace / 3D printing lab design
Hardware - hands on with 3D printers
- 3D Printer management, maintenance, repairs and workflows

Consulting

Advising and strategizing on makerspace design, equipment, setup, hardware, and 3D printer selection
Private bespoke workshops by school district
Custom curriculum + workbooks, exercises, and syllabi
Regional workshops for your school or school district
Keynotes and guest speaker presentations

Our Team

We've developed curriculum and award winning innovation methods, delivered workshops, and presented conference keynotes internationally. Situated in Northern New Jersey, we serve the northeast corridor - Washington to Boston

Jason Frasca

Emerging Technologies

Iain Kerr

Innovation & Digital Design

Andrew Harrison

STEAM Education

What Our Community Says About Us

One of the best workshops I have attended in my 6 years of teaching. The two days met different concerns that I had for my upcoming year of teaching several STEM courses. I now have so many ideas about what to teach and how to teach it. Thank you for your time, effort, and professionalism.

Matthew Ducker Duffy

Scotch Plains-Fanwood High School

Blown away by the methodology used to introduce 3D design, establishing facility with foundation features by repetitive design exercises using these features to "make anything”

Bill Ruhl

Golda Och Academy

Thanks to Iain and Jason for their patience and for being so accommodating. They are wonderful teachers and hosts. I truly enjoyed all aspects of this workshop.

June Polidoro

St. Anthony School

Really helpful workshop that makes me feel more confident in my instruction! As a new teacher, I really appreciate the way the instructors created practical applications for 3D printing, so what I learned will definitely be incredibly helpful to my teaching practice.

Bridget Day

Gregory Elementary School

I'd go for a whole series of these, where we could go even more in-depth: Learning through the eyes of our students and thinking about the implications of the plasticity of the software on the design process.

Tim Steen

Eastern Christian School