For 249 years, Americans have enjoyed a day off from work to celebrate the Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest. Aside from the great Joey …
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Gary Stager’s Constructionism 2025 Paper
Net week, I’ll be in Zurich, Switzerland to present a paper and lead two hands-on workshops at the biennial Constructionism Conference. I’ve presented at each …
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Lella Gandini – Rest-in-Peace
I just received the tragic news that another giant of progressive education has passed. Lella Gandini did as much as anyone to popularize and demystify …
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The “Best” School in the World
Over decades of work in schools across the globe, Spensley Street Primary School remains my favorite school. I have been privileged to spend time at …
Letter to USA Today
Dear Mr. Schermele: I have worked in education for four decades as a teacher educators, teacher, journalist, author, and speaker. I read your article, Education Dept. …
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The AI Book You’ve Been Waiting For!
Our publishing company, Constructing Modern Knowledge Press, is proud to announce the release of a remarkable new book, The Learner’s Apprentice: AI and the Amplification …
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The School Mind Virus
I love love love love love the BBC micro:bit. I adore the folks who developed it. The micro:bit makes computational making possible in ways we …
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Persistent, Dopey, and Terrible Ideas
Read this incendiary article I wrote for circulation among my friends back in 1992. I didn’t write as well then and lacked a filter for …
A Little Extra
Sometimes, adding just a little bit extra to a classroom activity increases the nutritional value of the “the lesson” enormously. On the court I’ve taken …
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No Edits
For the first time in using AI chatbots over the past two years, I entered a prompt and the system returned a nearly perfect response. …