Sylvia Libow Martinez's Blog
December 14, 2020
Teaching with Amazon Alexa
Alexa is a voice-activated, cloud-based virtual assistant, similar to Siri on Apple devices, or Google Assistant. Alexa is an umbrella name for the cloud-based functionality that responds to verbal commands. Alexa uses artificial intelligence to answer questions or control smart devices, and has a range of “skills” — small programs that you can add to …
August 1, 2020
Virtual session handout – Sylvia Martinez
Sylvia Martinez – Session Resources “Making in the classroom is not a shopping list or a special place, it’s a stance towards learning.” Presentations, webinars, and blog at sylviamartinez.com Making in Education Resources Invent To Learn: Making, Tinkering, and Engineering in the Classroom by Sylvia Martinez and Gary Stager. (Second Edition) Completely revised and expanded, the …
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June 19, 2020
Writing about learning
I run a publishing company called Constructing Modern Knowledge Press. At this time, we have twelve books published, most of them written by educators. These books represent a wide array of content, but all are about creating modern, creative learning opportunities. Educators often ask me about writing their own books, and I highly encourage it. …
June 10, 2020
Pre-Service and Inservice Professional Development Papers (open access)
Teachers and teacher educators are facing great challenges teaching during this worldwide pandemic. With many conferences either cancelling or postponing their events, these sources of ideas and best practices are not available when critically needed. SITE-Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education shifted its spring conference to an online event this past April and …
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May 19, 2020
CMK 2020 Cancelled – Save the date for CMK 2021!
It is with great sadness that we are forced to cancel Constructing Modern Knowledge 2020, our annual summer institute. We have waited for months to make this decision, hoping that the COVID-19 crisis would end and we could all learn together in Manchester, NH this July. Sadly, many states have closed school for the year, …
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December 19, 2019
ISTE 2020 – Accepted and waitlisted sessions
I'll be presenting two sessions at ISTE 2020 in June 2019. 'Maker 2.0 - Now What?' and 'STEAM to the Future: The 4th Industrial Revolution is Here!'. I'm waiting for word on one more proposal about 'ethics, empathy, and ed tech', and two panels about biomaking and trends in educational technology.
December 12, 2019
New report – Long term potential of making and makerspaces for learning
Makerspaces for Education and Training: Exploring future implications for Europe A new Science for Policyreport from the Joint Research Centre (JRC), the European Commission’sscience and knowledge service aims to provide evidence-based scientific support to the European policymaking process regarding making and makerspaces in education. (PDF download) Yes, it says “Europe” and you may not be …
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December 11, 2019
Let’s meet at FETC 2020 – Miami in January!
I hope to see old friends and new at FETC 2020 in Miami, Florida, January 14-17, 2020. I’ll be talking Biomaking, Inclusive Makerspaces, STEM/STEAM, The 4th Industrial Revolution, Creativity, Disruptive Leadership Lenses, Ethics & Empathy, PBL for Making, What’s New/What’s Next for STEAM, and more. If you can’t make FETC – check out these new …
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November 29, 2019
Black Friday sale on CMK Press Kindle books
Our book publishing company, Constructing Modern Knowledge Press is having a Black Friday sale! From Black Friday( November 29, 2019) to Cyber Monday (December 2, 2019) all our Kindle books will be available for $1.99! AllKindleversions ofConstructing Modern Knowledge Pressbooks, including the newly revised 2nd edition ofInvent to Learn: Making, Tinkering, and Engineering in the …
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November 26, 2019
Florida – Invent to Learn Workshops
2020 Florida WorkshopsFeb 10, 2020 Fort Lauderdale, FL Feb 12, 2020 Jacksonville, FL Join me and Gary Stager as we host one-day workshops on coding, making, and physical computing in Florida. This workshop will focus on the amazing opportunities for students to code and make across the curriculum using new micro-controllers like the BBC micro:bit. …
