The personal blog of Gary S. Stager, Ph.D.
In 2013, Sylvia Martinez and I wrote/published Invent To Learn: Making, Tinkering, and Engineering in the Classroom. That book, called the “bible of the maker …
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 …
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 …
Constructing Modern Knowledge was borne of conversations between Gary Stager and Seymour Papert about the need to create a setting where educational computing and progressive education could …
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 …
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 …
Our publishing company, Constructing Modern Knowledge Press, is proud to announce the release of a remarkable new book, The Learner’s Apprentice: AI and the Amplification …
Seymour Papert loved sharing children’s learning stories as a way of illuminating powerful ideas. His stories recounted the learning adventures of kids in classrooms, in …
Five or six years ago, I was honored with an invitation to contribute an essay to a collection of provocative treatises on education written by …
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 …
