Gary Stager’s Approach to Teaching Programming Masterclass
At the start of the pandemic, I led an online masterclass sharing my approach to teaching kids to program computers. You may watch that video …
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Paired Videos for Computer Science Week
I fell in love with computer programming in a public junior high school 7th grade class back in 1975. (Read Me and Mr. Jones) By …
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Pondering This Moment (video)
On November 18, 2020, I engaged in a sweeping conversation with Steve Hargadon as part of the Emergency Home Learning Summit by Learning Revolution. This …
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Educational Zoom Activity #1
“You can’t think about thinking without thinking about thinking about something” – Seymour Papert I find potentially interesting education provocations everywhere. The remarkable generosity of …
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This is Our Moment!
I hope that anyone reading this is healthy and sane during this period of uncertainty. Teachers and kids alike are grieving over the loss of …
Scratch and the Negligent Homicide of Mathland
Scratch is a miracle. It’s popularity as a creative computing environment and its ubiquity around the world are truly impressive. Millions of children use the …
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When a Young Newspaper Reporter Asks Questions, Why not Turn it into a Blog Post?
I recently received interview questions by a cub reporter in the heartland. Paradoxically, the nature of the questions made answering a challenge. Here’s my attempt. …
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Professional Development Gets Personal
Hello World is a free, glossy, well-edited magazine for educators published by the Raspberry Pi Foundation. Gary Stager has written two featured articles in the …
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A Modest Proposal
The irony could cause whiplash. Over the past thirty years, the EdTech community expended sufficient energy to colonize Mars fighting the idea of teaching children …
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Me and Mr. Jones (2001)
The story of a boy’s academic pursuits in New Jersey and education’s lack of progress since then… © 2001 Gary S. Stager/Curriculum Administrator Magazine Published …