Our guest says that the maker movement is neither something old, or something new. The maker movement represents a fresh opportunity to help kids learn in compelling and real-world ways.

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Sylvia Martinez is the co-author of Invent To Learn: Making, Tinkering, and Engineering and president of Generation YES, a non-profit evangelizing student involvement in education reform through technology integration and service learning. Prior to that, Sylvia designed educational software and video games, and was an aerospace engineer.

Blog: http://inventtolearn.com and http://blog.genyes.org