Who’s that Guy with Stager?
Gary Stager is returning to Australia to once again keynote the FutureSchools Conference in his adopted second hometown of Melbourne in March 2018. He will …
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Design as an Inadequate Lens for Understanding Seymour Papert
I wrote the attached paper for the 2017 Interaction Design and Children Conference at Stanford University. It was accepted, but ultimately not published since I could …
Mourning Bob Tinker, The Thomas Edison of S.T.E.M.
The world lost a remarkable educator on June 22, 2017 when Dr. Robert Tinker passed away at the age of 75. If your students have …
In Honor of Teacher Appreciation Week
Here are some magazine articles I wrote about teachers who made a difference in my life. Me and Mr. Jones (about a 7th grade computing teacher …
Ancient History – The Rationale for Keyboarding Instruction Challenged (1989)
Note from Gary Stager… In 1989, a great friend, colleague and pioneer in educational computing, Steve Shuller, authored the following literature review. Steve was Director …
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MaKey MaKey Co-Inventor, Eric Rosenbaum, Joins All-Star Lineup at CMK 2017
Constructing Modern Knowledge 2017 is thrilled to announce that Dr. Eric Rosenbaum will be joining our 10th annual summer institute, July 11-14 in Manchester, New …
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Collaboration
I have often wondered why educators are so darn excited about Google. They get “Google Certified,” attend Google conference sessions, mourn when features change or …
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Seymour Papert – Father of the Maker Movement
Dr. Gary Stager was invited to write a profile of his friend, colleague, and mentor Dr. Seymour Papert for the premiere issue of Hello World!, an impressive …
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Laptop Woes (2005)
Bungling the World’s Easiest Sale Gary Stager District Administration, Oct 2005 10/1/2005 Forty years ago Seymour Papert began talking about a computer for every learner. …
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Gary Stager on Tech Insurgents (2005)
Do your teachers need a computing IEP? Gary Stager, Ph.D. District Administration, Jun 2005 6/1/2005 At the recent Consortium for School Networking conference educational computing …