Been There, Done That
I created this post to remind people that the dystopian fantasy of replacing schools with AI is far from new and in many ways has …
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The Complete Banned Collection
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 …
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The Best Way to Make Enemies (2008)
Do the impossible © 2008 Gary S. Stager, Ph.D. I led professional development in the world’s first two “laptop schools” back in 1990. Ever since, …
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Terrorize or Educate?
Consider the Source I marvel how infrequently people verify the credentials of instant experts before trusting their expertise, or worse, reposting it on social media. …
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Invent To Learn – Now in 10 Languages
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 …
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Early 1990s Papers by Gary Stager
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 …
This isn’t About Cheating, but a Loss of Dominance
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 …
CMK’s Roots: Logo, Piaget, and AI
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 …
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Happy 35th Birthday Personal Computing!
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… …
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Gary Stager’s Constructionism 2025 Paper
Net week, I’ll be in Zurich, Switzerland to present a paper and lead two hands-on workshops at the biennial Constructionism Conference. I’ve presented at each …