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Sylvia Martinez: 3 Mistakes Teachers Make About Tinkering (and more)

The CoolCatTeacher

Sylvia Libow Martinez is a co-author of Invent To Learn: Making, Tinkering, and Engineering the Classroom helping teachers bring the exciting tools and technology of the Maker Movement to classrooms worldwide. Previously, Sylvia was President of Generation YES, evangelizing student leadership through modern technology.

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What a Makerspace Can Mean for the Writing Classroom—Takeaways from NWP Annual Meeting

Educator Innovator

Maker Faire. “Girls Stem Nights” Writing and Making. What makes this conversation even more important, is that lately many of us in the maker movement have been stressing the importance of process over product. One of the few recent trends in education that does so.” Exhibition. Her work is inspiring!!

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The History of the Future of Learning Objects and Intelligent Machines

Hack Education

The “maker movement.” ” These are all examples of how ideologies are embedded in ed-tech trends and technologies – in their development and their marketing. All this shapes the kinds of educational software and hardware that gets developed and adopted. Collaboration. Personalization.