The personal blog of Gary S. Stager, Ph.D.
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 …
Constructing Modern Knowledge was borne of conversations between Gary Stager and Seymour Papert about the need to create a setting where educational computing and progressive education could …
Note: A growing collection of archival documents and books related to the history of 1:1 personal computing in schools may be found here. My story… …
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 …
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 …
