The personal blog of Gary S. Stager, Ph.D.
My latest article is in The Huffington Post. It’s called, “Who Elected Bill Gates?” The article is dense, but that was required to support my …
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 …
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 …
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 …
I was bullied by the older neighborhood kids. I was bullied by the kids in the Scout troop. I was bullied in elementary school. I …
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 …