The personal blog of Gary S. Stager, Ph.D.
I try hard not to impose my will upon our “students.” Honest educators will confess that such temptation is hard to resist, especially when you would like students to have a particular experience or learn something specific. Add the constraints imposed by a four-day event and oh, boy do you want to teach! But resist you must!
It’s hard to believe that it has been nearly a month since 75 educators descended upon The Ancona School in Chicago for the wildly successful …
Modern mathematics teaching and learning requires computation. Computer programming and mathematical knowledge construction should be inseparable. This downloadable handout attempts to make that case.
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 …
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 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 …
All children should learn to program, not because it may lead to a job, but because it is a new liberal art and grants young …
Snap! is a block based language created by the University of California at Berkeley and used in their first year computer science courses, as well …
Leading family learning-by-making workshops in schools around the world is a pure joy. When parents can experience through the eyes, hands, and screens of their …
Presented with what we hope was a good prompt, great materials, “sufficient” time, and a supportive culture, including a range of expertise, the assembled educators would be able to invent and learn in ways that exceeded their expectations.
