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Sylvia Martinez

about

Sylvia Martinez is a former aerospace engineer and video game designer, and the co-author of the book, Invent To Learn: Making, Tinkering, and Engineering in the Classroom.

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FETC

What tech vision are you sharing with students and families?

A school’s technology acceptable use policy should cover the benefits of using ed tech—not just promises of punishment, says DA guest columnist Sylvia Martinez, who is co-author of “Invent To Learn: Making, Tinkering, and Engineering in the Classroom,” and who has been an FETC featured speaker.
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Curriculum & Instruction

Creating a makerspace on a shoestring

You don’t need to spend top dollar to fill this new learning space with tools that engage elementary, middle and high school students, says DA guest columnist and FETC featured speaker Sylvia Martinez.
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Curriculum & Instruction

Remaking the library

DA guest columnist and FETC featured speaker Sylvia Martinez provides tips on how to combine curriculum, crafts and a dose of creativity in your library makerspace. She is co-author of Invent To Learn: Making, Tinkering, and Engineering in the Classroom.
FETC

Start making from day one

Guest columnist Sylvia Martinez, a speaker at DA’s FETC 2020, says that If you are looking at making and makerspace activities as a way to give students more agency over their own learning, why not start building those habits immediately to send that message early and often.
Arts

The case for creativity in STEAM

DA guest columnist and FETC 2020 speaker Sylvia Martinez discusses how creativity is a key component of deep learning and how it can be integrated into the STEM curriculum.
FETC

Makerspace, hackerspace or fablab? What’s in a name?

In the past decade, the terms makerspace, hackerspace and fablab have appeared on the horizon. These are new names for what people have always done—come together to fix things, make new things and learn from each other, says DA guest columnist and FETC featured speaker Sylvia Martinez, who is co-author of Invent To Learn: Making, Tinkering, and Engineering in the Classroom.