The personal blog of Gary S. Stager, Ph.D.
My tricky little pal and fellow suffering Jets fan, Will Richardson, recently tweeted asking for TED Talk suggestions to share with his family on “TED …
Steve Hargadon, the Maury Povich of edtech, will interview me later today for a freewheeling webinar entitled, Inside the Mind of Gary Stager, for his …
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 …
Last week, my 7 year-old nephew, (let’s call him) Homer, brought home another stupendous homework assignment. He was required to read a phonics primer to …
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 …
Last evening, Charlie Rose interviewed Jack Dorsey, Chairman and one of the three co-founders of Twitter. Dorsey also spoke about his revolutionary new company, Square. …
This past Fall, one of my oldest friends, veteran mathematics educator Ihor Charischak, hosted me for a Math 2.0 live webinar. The webinar featured a …
The future is the last refuge of a scoundrel (Gary Stager, 2010 – with apologies to Samuel Johnson) I go to a lot of education …
Each year I make dozens of presentations at educational events around the world. Nearly every presentation is followed by an audience member asking, “Can I …
A kinder gentler version of this article will be published in a forthcoming issue of The Creative Educator Magazine. Once upon a time, an enthusiastic …