The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 6, 2017

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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Edsurge

AUGUST 7, 2017

Pearsall notes that this school year teachers are expanding their definitions of technology projects to include more maker centers and coding curriculum. As the maker movement catches on, we're seeing more requests for things like MakerBots, 3Doodler pens, and robotics kits.” Stay away from the buzzwords,” says Goodman.

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MindShift

JUNE 29, 2015

In a fast-moving field like education technology, it’s worth taking a moment to take stock of new developments, persistent trends and the challenges to effective tech implementation in real classrooms. This macro trend to shake up typical ways of schooling is opening new opportunities for technology to play an even bigger role in education.

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2019

Of all the learning trends of the past 20 years, one of the most sweeping and impactful has been the rise of the maker movement. After 15 years of inspiring millions of people to be creative and “make” something out of just about nothing, Maker Media, the company behind much of momentum, shut down due to financial shortfalls.

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Educator Innovator

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

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. A 3D printed object isn’t the learning, the student designing a 3D model in software is where the real learning takes place. Thanks to my own kid for this anecdote!)

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 23, 2019

For the past decade, I've churned out a multi-part series on the dominant trends and narratives. It’s not that these things are necessarily trends; it’s that certain folks very much hope they will be. Carnegie Mellon announced it would open source its digital learning software. Something about "learning engineers".

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

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.

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