Shadowboxing Avatars
The New York Times invited me to debate the following premise: “School administrators say online courses in K-12 classrooms can give students the skills they’ll …
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Tell the Kids, “I Stand with Gilbert!”
Yesterday, Wes Fryer published a blog post, Digital Citizenship Lesson from Gilbert Gottfried: The (former) Voice of the Aflac Duck. While I understand Wes’ desire …
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Am I Making Any Sense?
Uber-edublogger Will Richardson recently published a blog post entitled, Valuing Change. In the article, he reiterated the frequent lament that teachers don’t “consider” or “value” …
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Virtual Handout
Subscribe to be kept up-to-date on CMK 2016 news & speakers My latest book, “Invent To Learn – Making, Tinkering, and Engineering in the Classroom.” …
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Who Elected Bill Gates?
My latest article is in The Huffington Post. It’s called, “Who Elected Bill Gates?” The article is dense, but that was required to support my …
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Introducing The Daily Papert
A few weeks ago, I quietly launched a new site, The Daily Papert to bring Seymour Papert’s powerful ideas to our short attention-span culture. I …
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Uncle Gary’s Gift to the Richardson Family
My tricky little pal and fellow suffering Jets fan, Will Richardson, recently tweeted asking for TED Talk suggestions to share with his family on “TED …
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Free Webinar 1/25/11
Steve Hargadon, the Maury Povich of edtech, will interview me later today for a freewheeling webinar entitled, Inside the Mind of Gary Stager, for his …
The Games Teachers Play (2008)
We are cheating our students by turning reading into a game of dodgeball. There is lots of talk about games and education these days. Educators …
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Why Logo? – One Courageous School’s Attempt to Make Learning Personal (1993)
Note: I wrote this article in 1993, three years after I began at working at the world’s first two laptop schools, including Melbourne, Australia’s Methodist …