Faculty Summer Reading Recommendations
This time of year, schools scramble to select a book for their entire faculty to read over the summer. Although it would be nice if …
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PBL 360 – Unique Immersive Professional Development
PBL 360 Overview – Professional Development for Modern Educators Gary S. Stager, Ph.D. and his team of expert educators travel the world to create immersive, high-quality …
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Costa Rican Annual Lecture Videos
In November, I had a the great honor of working with my colleagues at the Omar Dengo Foundation, Costa Rica’s NGO responsible for computers in …
Getting Started with MicroWorlds (Logo) Programming
I started teaching Logo to kids in 1982 and adults in 1983. I was an editor of ISTE’s Logo Exchange journal and wrote the project …
The Patented Stager Rubric
I’m against rubrics. Anyone considering their use should read Alfie Kohn’s article, Trouble with Rubrics. That said, people I respect have used the special Handy …
New Hands-on Workshops for 2015
In addition to the popular minds-on/hands-on Invent to Learn workshops already offered by Constructing Modern Knowledge, I’m pleased to announce a brand new set of …
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___Thinking
Thinking and learning are strong proud words. When educational publishers or policy-makers seek to modify such terms, (re: design thinking, discovery learning, computational thinking…), the result seems less than …
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A Not-So-Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Future (2004)
A Not-So-Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Future © 2004 Gary S. Stager Published by the NECC Daily Leader conference newspaper on June …
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Laptop Schools Lead the Way in Professional Development (1995)
In Australia… Laptop Schools Lead the Way in Professional Development As published in Educational Leadership – October 1995 By Gary S.Stager Gary S. Stager is a teacher educator …
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The Case for Computing (2003)
The Case for Computing By Gary S. Stager A chapter from the book, Snapshots! Educational Insights from the Thornburg Center Stager, G. (2003). The Case for …