The personal blog of Gary S. Stager, Ph.D.
I created Constructing Modern Knowledge (CMK) four years ago as a labor of love. I was growing increasingly concerned that educators lacked the time necessary …
Subscribe to be kept up-to-date on CMK 2016 news & speakers My latest book, “Invent To Learn – Making, Tinkering, and Engineering in the Classroom.” …
A few weeks ago, I quietly launched a new site, The Daily Papert to bring Seymour Papert’s powerful ideas to our short attention-span culture. I …
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 …
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 …
The future is the last refuge of a scoundrel (Gary Stager, 2010 – with apologies to Samuel Johnson) I go to a lot of education …
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 …
I just received this photo from a second grade teacher I worked with last month in South Korea. I spent a week teaching programming (via …
Contemporary discussions of educational technology seem consumed with data management, total cost of ownership, testing and everything but student learning. It may be worth taking …
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 …