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Author: Sylvia Martinez
Libraries as makerspaces
Many aspects of the best makerspaces already exist in school libraries: * Librarians and LMS’s are experts in finding resources and connecting them with kids and teachers who need them. * Libraries are community spaces that offer learning outside classroom …
Top Ten Tools of the Maker Movement for Classrooms at Global 2013 STEMx this week!
The Global 2013 STEMx Education Conference is the world’s first massively open online conference for educators which focuses on Science, Technology, Engineering, Math, and more. The conference will be held online, around the clock, over the course of three days, September 19 …
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Invent To Learn reviewed by the School Library Journal
From School Library Journal: Science Learning | A Medley of Resources For anyone interested in learning more about the maker movement in education, this is an excellent starting point. Innovative educators,Stager, Executive Director of The Constructivist Consortium, and Martinez, President of Generation YES, …
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RAVSAK – What Schools Can Learn from the Maker Movement
This month in HaYidion, the magazine of RAVSAK: The Jewish Community Day School Network, Gary and I wrote an article called What Schools Can Learn from the Maker Movement. Here’s a bit of it. Kid makers possess a skill set and self-efficacy that …
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The Maker Movement Finds its Way into Pittsburgh Classrooms
Remake Learning is the blog of the Pittsburgh Kids and Creativity Network. In The Maker Movement Finds its Way into Pittsburgh Classrooms, they say, “The school library might not be the most obvious place to find kids building robots. But this year, Miriam …
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Lessons from the Maker Movement for K-12 Educators
In our book, Invent To Learn: Making, Tinkering, and Engineering, we explore how to put an active learner at the center of the learning process, building on traditional progressive classroom practices combined with materials old and new, and incorporating the …
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Trends from EdTech Digest Review
Capturing the excitement of the maker movement and sharing the educational case for bringing making, tinkering and engineering to every classroom in America and beyond, education and technology pioneers Gary Stager and Sylvia Martinez explore new technologies, place them in …
Eminent educator Ken Bernstein reviews Invent To Learn in the Education Review Journal
Education Review / Reseñas Educativas / Resenhas Educativas (ISSN: 10945296) is a multi-lingual journal that publishes reviews of recent books in education, covering the entire range of education scholarship and practice. Review of Invent to Learn (PDF) The eminent educator Ken Bernstein reviews the …
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Dear Leanna – My daughter’s class is having “Maker Days” – what’s this about?
Leanna Landsmann: ‘Maker’ movement inspires learning by creating things A parent writes in to education advice columnist Leanna Landsmann: “My daughter is a fifth-grader. On her teacher’s website, it says the class will have “Maker Days” once a month. Students …
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