Article: Gadgets set to transform schools. Forget chalk and blackboard ... today's schoolkids get to play with 3D printers, object cloners, computer-controlled embroidery machines and teaching robots. Clive Akass reports.

Classrooms are a sight more interesting than they used to be, if exhibits at this year's Bett education-technology show are anything to go by. There were gadgets enough to have parents drooling, let alone their children.

Stars of the show were a variety of computer-controlled devices allowing you to print or carve 3D objects designed on a computer - or even to clone real objects, using data derived from photos or mechanical sensors. The machines are used in the teaching of computer-aided design and manufacture (Cad/Cam), which is part of the National Curriculum.

You'd imagine that few schools could afford [pounds sterling]18,975 for a Dimension BST 3D ...

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