Family Workshops
Invent To Learn Workshops for Families Gary Stager and his Constructing Modern Knowledge teammates love working with children and their parents. These hands-on and minds-on …
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Code.org – Oy Veh
Hate to be a killjoy, but I just looked at one of the Code.org activities for programming turtle graphics in App Lab. As someone who has taught …
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Program Your Own Geometry Toolkit
More than 20 years ago, a graduate student of mine, named Beth, (surname escapes me, but she had triplets and is a very fine high school …
Using Computers as Creative Tools (2001)
Using Computers as Creative Tools The debate about technology’s place in classrooms might vanish if the machines are used to expand students’ self-expression Be sure …
Virtual Learning Lunch – Construction of Mathematical Knowledge
Here are some objects to think with to get you started. Pack a lunch, fire up a colortini and watch the pictures as they fly …
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I Could Go On…
A response to the plethora of articles spouting hooey similar to this article – Saving Computer Science from Itself (Regrettably, I will undoubtedly be compelled to …
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In 100 Words
Gary Stager’s work and educational philosophy are based on four ideas. The Piagetian idea that “knowledge is a consequence of experience.” Xenophon’s admonition that “nothing …
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Yuck!
The slide below is being passed around the Internet by well-meaning educators. However, such “don’t do this, do that” statements from startup-culture and Silicon Valley education …
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Why We Need to Reinvent Mathematics Education
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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Three Little Words
Back-to-school… Three little words that I have dreaded since 1968. I remain haunted by the hideous nature of my own school experience. Each back-to-school commercial …