New Foreword to the Lithuanian Translation of Invent to Learn
Our book, Invent to Learn: Making, Tinkering, and Engineering in the Classroom is being translated into Lithuanian. Ahead of the Fall release, I asked if …
The personal blog of Gary S. Stager, Ph.D.
Our book, Invent to Learn: Making, Tinkering, and Engineering in the Classroom is being translated into Lithuanian. Ahead of the Fall release, I asked if …
For 249 years, Americans have enjoyed a day off from work to celebrate the Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest. Aside from the great Joey …
Net week, I’ll be in Zurich, Switzerland to present a paper and lead two hands-on workshops at the biennial Constructionism Conference. I’ve presented at each …
Over decades of work in schools across the globe, Spensley Street Primary School remains my favorite school. I have been privileged to spend time at …
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 …
Sometimes, adding just a little bit extra to a classroom activity increases the nutritional value of the “the lesson” enormously. On the court I’ve taken …
Seymour Papert loved sharing children’s learning stories as a way of illuminating powerful ideas. His stories recounted the learning adventures of kids in classrooms, in …
Anyone familiar with my work/scholarship knows that I am a constructionist who finds instruction to be severely overvalued. This is an admittedly unpopular view in …
Not all screens are created equally! There is a profound difference between how parents use an iPad to quiet a toddler at a pancake house …
Curation is a form of good teaching. Great teachers provide just the right number of deliberate materials to ensure that the student has ample supply …