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The Complete Banned Collection

March 3, 2026March 3, 20260

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 …

The Best Way to Make Enemies (2008)

March 3, 2026March 3, 20260

The Children’s Machine – It’s time to turn the network upside down (2008)

March 3, 2026March 3, 20260

It’s Time to Turn the Network Upside Down Not Published by District Administration Magazine©February 2008 Gary S. Stager, Ph.D. During the mid-sixties, Seymour Papert began …

Terrorize or Educate?

January 17, 2026January 20, 2026

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. …

Early 1990s Papers by Gary Stager

August 24, 2025August 24, 2025

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

August 18, 2025January 15, 20261

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 …

New Foreword to the Lithuanian Translation of Invent to Learn

July 17, 2025July 17, 2025

Our book, Invent to Learn: Making, Tinkering, and Engineering in the Classroom is being translated into Lithuanian. Ahead of the Fall release, I asked if …

Gary Stager’s Constructionism 2025 Paper

June 19, 2025June 20, 2025

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 …