The personal blog of Gary S. Stager, Ph.D.
Feeling overwhelmed by unrest in the Middle East, the economic crisis, threats of nuclear annihilation, teacher layoffs, union-busting, the firing of the Aflac duck or …
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 …
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” …
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 …
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 …
Last evening, Charlie Rose interviewed Jack Dorsey, Chairman and one of the three co-founders of Twitter. Dorsey also spoke about his revolutionary new company, Square. …
This past Fall, one of my oldest friends, veteran mathematics educator Ihor Charischak, hosted me for a Math 2.0 live webinar. The webinar featured a …
The future is the last refuge of a scoundrel (Gary Stager, 2010 – with apologies to Samuel Johnson) I go to a lot of education …
Like many “progressive” educators, I have been alarmed by the lack of intellectual, pedagogical or ideological diversity represented in NBC Universal’s week-long series of discussions …
Summer 2010 marked the 20th anniversary of my work leading professional development in schools where every student has a personal laptop computer. One of the …