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I just received the following email with the subject above. It’s a political critique of Governor Christie by my 13 year-old nephew, Mathew. I’ve posted …
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The Games Teachers Play (2008)
We are cheating our students by turning reading into a game of dodgeball. There is lots of talk about games and education these days. Educators …
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Why Logo? – One Courageous School’s Attempt to Make Learning Personal (1993)
Note: I wrote this article in 1993, three years after I began at working at the world’s first two laptop schools, including Melbourne, Australia’s Methodist …
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Please Stop Thinking About Tomorrow
The future is the last refuge of a scoundrel (Gary Stager, 2010 – with apologies to Samuel Johnson) I go to a lot of education …
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My Educon 2.3 session
Lessons for K-12 from the Best Preschools in the World When: Session One: Saturday 10:00am–11:30am Where: Room 208 Who: Gary S. Stager Ph.D. Affiliation: The …
I was Bullied
I was bullied by the older neighborhood kids. I was bullied by the kids in the Scout troop. I was bullied in elementary school. I …
Reading Fads: Why Tom Friedman Does Not Compute (2006)
I’m always on the lookout for educational trends. Over the past couple of months the usual suspects who speak at education conferences have been toting …
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The Year of the Laptop (2010)
Twenty years ago this past summer, I led professional development at the first two schools in the world where every student had a laptop. You …
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The Market Speaks!
Oprah, Barack Obama, NBC News, Arianna Huffington and most other rich & powerful folks keep telling anyone who will listen that the mediocre propagandistic documentary, …
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My Hero to Speak at CMK 2011
National Book Award-Winning author and civil rights activist Jonathan Kozol is coming to Constructing Modern Knowledge 2011! I could not be more thrilled or honored. …