The personal blog of Gary S. Stager, Ph.D.
Maine’s great laptop experiment should not be picked at, but applauded In September, every seventh grader in Maine–and their teachers–will be given their own iBook …
I’m writing this column because I’m embarrassed. Two recent issues of District Administration have carried columns by Gary Stager that have attacked aspects of the …
On the front seat of a New Orleans taxi was a television the cabbie managed to watch while driving. The TV was tuned to an …
There’s some serious thought behind the Frappuccino. It is no accident that people are willing to pay over four bucks for a cup of joe …
What sort of mature culture relies on Jessica Simpson to “Save the Music?” I first encountered Roy Haynes 26 years ago as a high school …
The Best Way to Make Enemies… Do the impossible © 2008 Gary S. Stager Since 1990, I have worked in schools where every child has …
In July 1990, Dr. Seymour Papert was the closing keynote speaker at a historic event, the World Conference on Computers in Education, held in Sydney, …
Check out the transcript chronicling a debate between Alfie Kohn and Gene Wilhoit, executive director of the Council of Chief State School Officers. The subject …
This weekend, January 29-31, I will be in America’s winter vacationland, Philadelphia, to participate in a timeless tradition, the annual running of the bull at …
In 1963, Stanley Milgram, a Yale psychologist began a series of studies “intended to measure the willingness of a participant to obey an authority who …