For Further Study
The following are some links to articles and other resources to support Dr. Gary Stager’s Fireside Chat, “The Education Revolution?” at Trinity College, The University …
Category: politics
Shocked! Shocked! Reading First Plagued by Corporate Welfare, Cronyism and Demonization
Originally published on Wednesday, October 04, 2006 in The Pulse: Education’s Place for Debate Aside from reducing teachers to script-reading robots and reading to an …
Stager’s SLA Manifesto
At last January’s Educon 2.1 Conference I enjoyed the great privilege of serving on a panel discussion about school reform with a number of impressive …
Isn’t this Redundant?
Gary StagerVeteran educator Gary Stager, Ph.D. is the author of Twenty Things to Do with a Computer – Forward 50, co-author of Invent To Learn — …
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Tech Insurgents: Do your teachers need a computing IEP?
At the recent Consortium for School Networking conference [2005*] educational computing pioneer Seymour Papert was asked to explain why there has been so little [school] …
A Critically Important Issue for Education – Certainty (even if the science is far from certain)
Originally published in 2009 Last night, students in one of my pre-service methods courses presented a curricular lesson they designed and a paper exploring a …
Our Gettysburg Address?
On our nation’s Independence Day, I humbly offer this text for historians interested in understanding early 21st Century America (because I surely can’t). Paul Begala …
Recipe for a Disruptive Keynote
Should I be concerned that I got to keynote NECC the very year that they are killing off the brand? Was it something I said? …
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Must-read Classic for All Conference Attendees
Back in the late 1960s, Neil Postman wrote extensively about how educational quality and a healthy democracy were dependent on each citizen having a highly …
Be Careful What You Tweet For!
The strangest thing happened today (6/25/09). I was invited to be part of the keynote debate and dialogue at the National Educational Computing Conference in …