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Ya Gotta Eat! Three of my favorite restaurants are within blocks of each other on the Lower East Side. This is the hilarious article that …
The personal blog of Gary S. Stager, Ph.D.
Ya Gotta Eat! Three of my favorite restaurants are within blocks of each other on the Lower East Side. This is the hilarious article that …
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 …
Note: A growing collection of archival documents and books related to the history of 1:1 personal computing in schools may be found here. My story… …
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 …
For 249 years, Americans have enjoyed a day off from work to celebrate the Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest. Aside from the great Joey …
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 …
I just received the tragic news that another giant of progressive education has passed. Lella Gandini did as much as anyone to popularize and demystify …