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 …
Before accepting over-testing as inevitable, try debating the issue with parents and students! Please subscribe to my very occasional newsletter! Our schools are in the …
I am beyond thrilled to share the stage with Dennis Littky at this weekend’s TEDxNYED. For those of you unfamiliar with Dennis Littky and his …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
The future is the last refuge of a scoundrel (Gary Stager, 2010 – with apologies to Samuel Johnson) I go to a lot of education …
A kinder gentler version of this article will be published in a forthcoming issue of The Creative Educator Magazine. Once upon a time, an enthusiastic …