FETC presenter Sylvia Martinez will present an Edchat Interactive webinar, Education Practices for the 4th Industrial Revolution, on Tuesday, October 22, at 8 pm ET.
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Sylvia Martinez is an author, speaker and publisher who focuses on project-based, student-centered learning in STEM. Martinez co-wrote Invent to Learn: Making, Tinkering, and Engineering in the Classroom with Gary Stager and leads Constructing Modern Knowledge Press. For ten years, Martinez was president of Generation YES, and earlier worked as an aerospace engineer on GPS satellite systems and in educational software design.
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Listen to this article (1 minute 13 seconds)Listen to this article1 min 13 s · read by a computer voice Play video: CoffeED: Sylvia Martinez (13 minutes 38 seconds)13:38 CoffeED: Sylvia Martinez13 min 38 sedCircuit on Vimeo Sylvia Martinez, leading author and speaker in the education technology space, spent time with Dr. Berger to discuss the Maker Movement and her new book, ‘Invent To Learn: Making, Tinkering, and Engineering in the Classroom.’ Sylvia works in schools around the world to bring the power of authentic learning into classrooms, particularly in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) subjects. Sylvia speaks, writes, and advocates for student-centered, project-based learning, gender equity in technology, computer programming, and life-long learning. For the past ten years, Sylvia was President of Generation YES, a non-profit with a mission of empowering young people to improve their schools and communities with modern technology. Previous to Generation YES, Sylvia was in charge of product …