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August 23, 2017
Back to school, back to making!
You may have heard that it’s best to “ease” into hands-on project-based learning at the start of the school year. Maybe you feel your students aren’t ready, need some skills development, or just need to have a few weeks of settling down before getting started with more independent work. I think this is a big …
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August 19, 2017
Invent to Learn a “Must Read” for Modern Educational Change Leaders
Modern Learners just released a free whitepaper, 8 Must Read Books for Modern Educational Change Leaders. We are honored to have Invent to Learn: Making, Tinkering, and Engineering in the Classroom appear alongside the other featured books from Seymour Papert, David Perkins, Seymour Sarason, and many more. “Sylvia and Gary’s book became an instant classic that in …
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Modern Learners just released a free whitepaper, 8 Must Read Books for Modern Educational Change Leaders. We are honored to have Invent to Learn: Making, Tinkering, and Engineering in the Classroom appear alongside the other featured books from Seymour Papert, David Perkins, Seymour Sarason, and many more. “Sylvia and Gary’s book became an instant classic that in …
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July 19, 2017
Educational Games: How Market Forces and Purchaser Attitudes Drive Design
Paper presented at the Australian Computers in Education Conference – October 2006 by Sylvia Martinez 2017 Note: This is a paper I wrote in 2006 about educational games. I’m posting it here so it can be found online.. Although more than 10 years have gone by since I wrote it, most of it is still true. …
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June 23, 2017
Is “making” in education a fad or a lasting change?
In part 1 of this two part series, I shared four attributes of ideas about education that successfully become common knowledge. In this post, part 2, the topic is whether making and makerspaces in education are here to stay or whether they will fade in popularity. According to From the Ivory Tower to the Schoolhouse: …
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June 22, 2017
4 keys that predict which education idea will be more than just a fad
Why do some ideas about education become common knowledge, while others don’t? According to From the Ivory Tower to the Schoolhouse: How Scholarship becomes Common Knowledge in Education by Jack Schneider, there are four key attributes: Perceived significance Philosophical compatibility Occupational realism Transportability The book explores educational ideas that made the leap from academia to being …
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...June 8, 2017
Upcoming events in June 2017
Hope to see you at these events coming up in the next few weeks! Richmond, VA – June 21: Math and Science Educator conference keynote and session. San Antonio, TX – June 25-28: Sessions on wearable computing, coding, and makerspace planning. Las Vegas, NV – June 30: Keynote at the Innovative Schools Summit.
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May 22, 2017
ABCs of Making – video
From our friends at the Waag Society in the Netherlands: We launched our ABC of Making movie to stimulate maker education in The Netherlands and inspire teachers to get started. With English subtitles! The website www.abcmaken.nl, is a visual dictionary of making, with books, videos, tools and tutorials. Super cool!
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April 13, 2017
Taking maker education to scale – interesting findings from FabLearn Denmark schools
Next week I’ll be hosted by the FabLearn DK (also known as Fablab@schools DK) network, a group of 44 (and growing) schools in four municipalities in Denmark: Kolding, Vejle, Silkeborg and Aarhus. These schools share resources, professional development, and expertise in their quest to engage students in high quality fabrication, design, and engineering experiences within … Continue reading Taking maker education to scale – interesting findings from FabLearn Denmark schools →
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April 7, 2017
Podcast: 3 Mistakes Teachers Make About Tinkering. Sylvia Martinez with Vickie “Cool Cat Teacher” Davis
Vickie “Cool Cat Teacher” Davis hosted me for a 10 minute podcast about “The 3 Mistakes Teachers Make About Tinkering” on her podcast, “The 10-Minute Teacher Show.” Find on iTunes Vickie’s blog post
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