Even Budget Cuts Can’t Prevent Stupid Field Trips!
Thanks to NY Teacher for the blog, Field Trips – Good and Bad. The blog reminds us how educational (and cost-effective) field trips can be …
Category: teaching
The Worst Book of the 21st Century (an updated review)
What should an educator do after they watch Daniel Pink’s deeply flawed PowerPoint presentation? How will a member of the audience become a better educator as a result of his keynote address? Why is he invited to speak to educators at all?
I’ve Angered Hooked-on-Phonics(R) – revisited
I just remembered a remarkable kerfuffle I stumbled into twelve years ago. In December 2008, President-Elect Obama nominated the worst Secretary of Education and I …
Stop the VoiceThread! Please!
Wes Fryer spends a great deal of time and effort on his blog and in workshops touting VoiceThread as an important new educational tool. VoiceThread …
Care to Really Understand Federal Education Policy?
In my humble opinion, Jo Boaler‘s, recent Education Week column, Where Has All the Knowledge Gone? The Movement to Keep Americans at the Bottom of …
What’s Next? Field Trip to Chuck E. Cheese?
I love Apple and their products, but this is beyond crass. Field trips to the Apple Store for your class! Parents with their American Express …
Tragic!
So sad… school field trip to the Apple Store Gary StagerVeteran educator Gary Stager, Ph.D. is the author of Twenty Things to Do with a …
teaching / technology / video
9/11: The Cartoon and Multiple-choice Test
BrainPop gives me a headache. I have long tried to make sense of BrainPop, a web-based library of short cartoons covering “hundreds of standards-aligned topics …
Sneak Peek at Educon 2.1 Preconference Event
Click the graphic above to learn more about this exciting Educon 2.1 preconference event! Gary StagerVeteran educator Gary Stager, Ph.D. is the author of Twenty …
classic Stager / education policy / leadership / merit pay / news / Obama / politics / teaching
They Hate Me, They Really Really Hate Me!
Kevin Carey, of the “independent” and “innovative” Education Sector, didn’t have the decency to defame me by name when he attacked the cover story, School …