Four Under-Discussed Thoughts on Teaching
While working in Italy recently, I took private tennis lessons with a new coach. That experience led me to think a lot about teaching (and …
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I Think I Hate This
An ad for a forthcoming product crossed my MyFace stream today and I am grateful for the number of competing issues it caused me to …
Lessons from Tennis Lessons
I’ve taken perhaps 200 tennis lessons since COVID-19 stopped the earth from spinning. This is the first time in which I’ve ever committed to any …
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3 Steps to Project-Based Learning
In Time for Optimism, I explored how progressive, learner-centered ideas, like project-based learning were becoming more popular, at least among elites choosing educational experiences for …
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#1(ish) Book on Amazon!
This book marks an important moment in my long professional career. I am enormously proud to not only share it with the world, but gratified to have it reach #1(ish) on Amazon.com
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Your 100-Year Tech Plan
All-star team of experts author book fifty years in the making Twenty Things to Do with a Computer Forward 50 is available immediately from Constructing Modern …
Meet Frank Smith (2003)
Gifts of wisdom for educatorsBy Gary S. Stager, Ph.D.Originally published in District Administration Magazine – December 2003 Christmas came early to the Stager house when a pre-publication …
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The Hang
Something truly magical occurred the other night. That experience has inspired me to lead a series of online summer campfire sessions online. I hope you will share my excitement. Sometimes it takes a lot of theory to explain something so natural.
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Books & Stuff that Soothe and Inspire Wonder
There’s no shortage of articles, web sites, top 1,000 app lists instructing educators what to do during the pandemic and when school returns to “normal.” …
Scratch and the Negligent Homicide of Mathland
Scratch is a miracle. It’s popularity as a creative computing environment and its ubiquity around the world are truly impressive. Millions of children use the …