The personal blog of Gary S. Stager, Ph.D.
Education journalist Emily Hanford is back with a second season of her terror inducing podcast, Sold a Story. After blaming teachers for not being sufficiently …
I recently spent time with serious genius mentors of mine, ages 85-95. Each and every one of these wise elders was using AI in a …
They’re dumb. They’re lazy. They’re sneaky. They’re gullible. They don’t read. They hallucinate. They’re mean. They’re dishonest. They can’t multiply. They’re addicted to social media… …
At least 1,500 times a day I read something on LinkedIn that enrages me. (good news for the algorithm) A major source of ire comes …
It saddens me that student speech rights have been continuously curtailed in the decades since I was in school. I become even more depressed when …
By Gary S. Stager, Ph.D.Originally published in District Administration Magazine – September 2003 Back-to-school time can be exciting, hectic and exhausting. Effective leaders take time …
Amidst an unexceptional suburban high school, I was blessed to have two music teachers who were working jazz musicians. Their talent, humor, generosity, and demonstrable …
I’ve been writing for magazines since the late 1990s and on occasion the publisher or Editor-in-Chief objected to the content of a column and refused …
I recently located and scanned several conference papers I wrote between 1990 and 1993. The first is particularly special because it justified my first trip …
Note: I capitalize the name of school subjects as a convention in this piece. The unprecedented hype and hysteria surrounding generative AI chatbots reveals something …
