The End of Textbooks (June 2003)
I was excited a few years back when Texas legislators suggested using textbook funds to purchase student laptops. I was less thrilled with the subsequent …
The personal blog of Gary S. Stager, Ph.D.
I was excited a few years back when Texas legislators suggested using textbook funds to purchase student laptops. I was less thrilled with the subsequent …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …