The personal blog of Gary S. Stager, Ph.D.
Read all about my 2017 TED Talk, Care Less or watch it below. This is my 4th and most recent TED Talk. All of my …
Note from Gary Stager… In 1989, a great friend, colleague and pioneer in educational computing, Steve Shuller, authored the following literature review. Steve was Director …
Few authors, activists, intellectuals or teachers move me like Jonathan Kozol. For nearly a half century, Kozol has given voice to the optimistic, playful, scared, …
I published this (IMHO) important article, “First We Kill the Teacher Unions” exactly three years ago today in The Huffington Post. I am enormously proud …
Oprah, Barack Obama, NBC News, Arianna Huffington and most other rich & powerful folks keep telling anyone who will listen that the mediocre propagandistic documentary, …
Just in case you didn’t think teachers have enough to contend with after massive budget cuts, layoffs, standardized testing and scores published by teacher in …
In the current world of education policy, nothing succeeds quite like failure. Traditionally, Australia’s newly elected Labor Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, “should” be pro-teacher and …
Eight or nine nights each week for the past several months my family and were caught up in the American Idol phenomena. 38 million Americans …
Has anyone else noticed that there’s a whole lot of coloring going on in schools? I’m not talking about primary grades. I see an alarming …
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, …