Holiday Gift Ideas for the Makers & Tinkerers in Your Life
Treat yourself or the other makers in your life to these incredible new (or old favorite) materials and sources of inspiration for future learning adventures. …
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Au Contraire?
I often explain to graduate students that I don’t play devil’s advocate or any other clever games. Just because I may say something unsaid by …
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My Out of the World Educon 2.5 (January 2013) Session
The following is the program description and proposal for my upcoming “conversation” at Educon 2.5 in Philadelphia, January 26th. You Say You Want Tech Standards? …
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Girls and Technology – Overcoming Myths & Malpractice (2002)
Girls and Technology – Overcoming Myths and Malpractice1Version 1.0Presented at the 2002 Alliance For Girl SchoolsGirls and Technology Conference – Melbourne, Australia© May 2002 Gary …
Accountability?
I’m a curious guy who wonders a lot about the forces and rhetoric influencing education. At the risk of kicking a hornet’s nest and incurring …
Cameras for Classrooms
Cameras should play an essential role in any classroom. They need to be freely accessible and abundant. Cameras can tell stories, document learning adventures and …
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Time for a Tactical Shift
Dear colleagues and friends of progressive education, It is time for us to stop arguing against high-stakes testing. Americans LOVE the idea of high-stakes as …
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Dr. Stager’s Prescription for Improving S.T.E.M.
The first step in improving Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (S.T.E.M.) in our classrooms is to find evidence of its existence. S.T.E.M. currently suffers from …
Catch Gary in the Act
Come see Gary Stager speak at the forthcoming events! November 5, 2012 Keynote speaker 16th Annual Innovative Learning Institute Norman, Oklahoma November 6, 2012 Workshop …
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Lawrence O’Donnell’s Inadvertent Wisdom on Education Reform
On October 12, 2012, MSNBC host and former West Wing writer, Lawrence O’Donnell, dedicated his “Rewrite” commentary to the sorts of changes he believes would …