The personal blog of Gary S. Stager, Ph.D.
Following my presentation at the March ASCD National Conference, Sarah McKibben of ASCD interviewed me for an article, If You Build It: Tinkering with the Maker …
Read all about my 2017 TED Talk, Care Less or watch it below. This is my 4th and most recent TED Talk. All of my …
I’ve been online since 1983 and my own web site dates back to the first term of the Clinton presidency. Along the way, I may …
I am always looking for ways to help teachers be more intentional and create deeper learning experiences for their students. Today, through the haze of …
Four out of five kindergarteners agree. . Foam blocks suck. Gary StagerVeteran educator Gary Stager, Ph.D. is the author of Twenty Things to Do …
In my thirty-two years of work with schools and educators on six continents, I have never worked with more caring, competent, generous or hardworking educators than those employed by the Newark Public Schools.
Candidly, I have not been enthusiastic about teaching “computational thinking” to kids. In nearly every case, computational thinking seemed to be a dodge intended to …
“Young people have a remarkable capacity for intensity….” Those words, uttered by one of America’s leading public intellectuals, Dr. Leon Botstein, President of Bard College, …
As Thomas Friedman once said, “Necessity is the mother of invention.” Two educators have developed a radical pedagogical theory solving an timeless problem that has …
Student voice is good. We should take the needs, interests, concerns, talent, curiosity, discomfort, and joy of children seriously. (pretty courageous statement, eh?) However, if …