The personal blog of Gary S. Stager, Ph.D.
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 …
In 2013, Sylvia Martinez and I wrote/published Invent To Learn: Making, Tinkering, and Engineering in the Classroom. That book, called the “bible of the maker …
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 publishing company, Constructing Modern Knowledge Press, is proud to announce the release of a remarkable new book, The Learner’s Apprentice: AI and the Amplification …
I love love love love love the BBC micro:bit. I adore the folks who developed it. The micro:bit makes computational making possible in ways we …
Read this incendiary article I wrote for circulation among my friends back in 1992. I didn’t write as well then and lacked a filter for …
For the first time in using AI chatbots over the past two years, I entered a prompt and the system returned a nearly perfect response. …
Seymour Papert loved sharing children’s learning stories as a way of illuminating powerful ideas. His stories recounted the learning adventures of kids in classrooms, in …
Not all screens are created equally! There is a profound difference between how parents use an iPad to quiet a toddler at a pancake house …
I once heard former President Clinton say, “every problem in education has been solved somewhere.” Educators stand on the shoulders of giants and should be …
