The personal blog of Gary S. Stager, Ph.D.
I love love love love love the BBC micro:bit. I adore the folks who developed it. The micro:bit makes computational making possible in ways we …
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 …
“I’m tired, but it’s a good kind of tired.” – David letterman <- Read previous entry 24 hours after arriving in Australia from India, the …
A chance to interact with two of the arguably most visionary school administrators alive today.
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 …
NeoPixels are tiny, programmable, color-changing, LEDs manufactured by AdaFruit. NeoPixels make cool additions to micro:bit projects since they require little power, can be addressed individually or in groups, and can change color. Although MakeCode makes programming the micro:bit easy, there was too little documentation about how to control the NeoPixels until now.
A reporter for an Australian education magazine recently sent interview questions about robotics in education, including the obligatory question about AI. The final article, when …
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.
Following speaking at the prestigious WISE Conference in Qatar (November 2017), Gary Stager delivered a keynote address on learning-by making at a conference held at …
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 …
