Design as an Inadequate Lens for Understanding Seymour Papert
I wrote the attached paper for the 2017 Interaction Design and Children Conference at Stanford University. It was accepted, but ultimately not published since I could …
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Mourning Bob Tinker, The Thomas Edison of S.T.E.M.
The world lost a remarkable educator on June 22, 2017 when Dr. Robert Tinker passed away at the age of 75. If your students have …
Gary Stager’s 30th Anniversary ISTE Sessions
This June’s ISTE Conference will be my thirtieth ISTE (formerly NECC) conferences as a speaker. I suspect that I have been part of 60-80 presentations …
Whole School Summer Reading Suggestions for Educators
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 fluent …
The Future (of CMK) is Now!
Constructing Modern Knowledge, celebrates its 10th anniversary this July 11-14, and represents the best work of my life. Before anyone was discussing the maker movement in schools, Constructing …
Ancient History – The Rationale for Keyboarding Instruction Challenged (1989)
Note from Gary Stager… In 1989, a great friend, colleague and pioneer in educational computing, Steve Shuller, authored the following literature review. Steve was Director …
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MaKey MaKey Co-Inventor, Eric Rosenbaum, Joins All-Star Lineup at CMK 2017
Constructing Modern Knowledge 2017 is thrilled to announce that Dr. Eric Rosenbaum will be joining our 10th annual summer institute, July 11-14 in Manchester, New …
In the Beginning
I graduated high school in June 1981 and despite having spent the past six years programming and teaching others too, I was told that I …
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Collaboration
I have often wondered why educators are so darn excited about Google. They get “Google Certified,” attend Google conference sessions, mourn when features change or …
Papert’s Prison Fab Lab: Implications for the maker movement and education design (2013)
A recent request from a doctoral student led me to find this 2013 paper I authored. Otherwise, it would have been forever lost in the dustbin …