The personal blog of Gary S. Stager, Ph.D.
Maine’s great laptop experiment should not be picked at, but applauded In September, every seventh grader in Maine–and their teachers–will be given their own iBook …
On the front seat of a New Orleans taxi was a television the cabbie managed to watch while driving. The TV was tuned to an …
There’s some serious thought behind the Frappuccino. It is no accident that people are willing to pay over four bucks for a cup of joe …
The Best Way to Make Enemies… Do the impossible © 2008 Gary S. Stager Since 1990, I have worked in schools where every child has …
In July 1990, Dr. Seymour Papert was the closing keynote speaker at a historic event, the World Conference on Computers in Education, held in Sydney, …
Check out the transcript chronicling a debate between Alfie Kohn and Gene Wilhoit, executive director of the Council of Chief State School Officers. The subject …
This weekend, January 29-31, I will be in America’s winter vacationland, Philadelphia, to participate in a timeless tradition, the annual running of the bull at …
In 1963, Stanley Milgram, a Yale psychologist began a series of studies “intended to measure the willingness of a participant to obey an authority who …
Author’s note – Monday, January 21, 2008. I originally published this in The Pulse: Education’s Place for Debate in January 2007, but alas it is …
Read this incendiary article I wrote for circulation among my friends back in 1992. I didn’t write as well then and lacked a filter for …
