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The world is under a process of globalization that implies an increase need of adaptation and ‘survival’. Pre-school education as a setting that prepares children for their future needs to be side by side with it. Children in poverty lack many times opportunities to be in the centre of this development. Dream Makers project is a longitudinal study that aims to help pre-school children in disadvantage develop their creative, cognitive and technological skills. Through a social sciences methodology 3D technology is introduced. The ultimately goal is to develop a new model for curriculum education while promoting inclusion. Practical implications are discussed.

The accelerated expansion and dissemination of digital technologies has been promotingcreativity and pedagogical innovation. In turn, creativity and innovation are today’s socialcapital. Education plays a key role in this process as it is the engine of economic, social and human development and the future of societies. In addition, the world has evolved with technology, based on two interdependent allies, creativity and innovation. The purpose of this study is to reflect on the importance of creative and innovative environments, which are an enabler of pedagogical transformation and social progress. Methodologically, it was used a bibliographical research collected in electronic repositories of free access from the descriptors educational environments, creativity, innovation and technologies. The results consistent with the literature suggest that the task is required of teachers to design environments that are conducive to the development of skills that reflect openness, coping with risk, critical thinking, flexibility, sensitivity, questioning and nonconformity, whose direct impact is fundamental to the process in the future life of students, in human development and in social progress.