{"id":2094,"date":"2011-05-27T11:03:41","date_gmt":"2011-05-27T16:03:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stager.tv\/?p=2094"},"modified":"2011-05-27T11:04:07","modified_gmt":"2011-05-27T16:04:07","slug":"heading-to-costa-rica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stager.tv\/?p=2094","title":{"rendered":"Heading to Costa Rica!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m taking a class of Pepperdine University doctoral students to Costa Rica for my Global Perspectives on Learning Technologies course. While there, we&#8217;ll be going on a school visit and have meetings at the Omar Dengo Foundation, the NGO responsible for supporting Costa Rica&#8217;s 25-year leadership in constructionism and computing.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll also be giving in a lecture at the University of Costa Rica (the ad is gorgeous, but they gave me my mustache back). I&#8217;m not sure what I will talk about, because it&#8217;s in Spanish \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stager.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Gary-Stager-CostaRica.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2095\" title=\"Gary Stager-CostaRica\" src=\"http:\/\/stager.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Gary-Stager-CostaRica.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stager.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Gary-Stager-CostaRica.jpg 800w, https:\/\/stager.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Gary-Stager-CostaRica-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t been in Costa Rica since 1991. It&#8217;s always nice to be in a country where they understand and respect Seymour Papert&#8217;s work. I am really looking forward to it!<\/p>\n<p>Here are a few resources related to Costa Rica&#8217;s Computers in Education Program:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"..\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/The-Computer-in-Costa-Rica.pdf\">The Computer in Costa Rica<\/a> (articles by Seymour Papert and Clotilde Fonseca)<\/li>\n<li>A terrific (low video quality) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vimeo.com\/24300398\" target=\"_blank\">short video<\/a> about the educational transformation in Costa Rica (from early 1990s)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/el.media.mit.edu\/logo-foundation\/pubs\/logoupdate\/V1N1.html#trans%0A\" target=\"_blank\">A National Transformation<\/a> (from 1993)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/el.media.mit.edu\/logo-foundation\/pubs\/logoupdate\/V1N1.html#trans\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/el.media.mit.edu\/logo-foundation\/pubs\/logoupdate\/V1N1.html#trans<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=sttiKY1tTRM&amp;feature=related\" target=\"_blank\">A short 2002 video about the Omar Dengo Foundation<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=o8AxgVeSNsI\" target=\"_blank\">1:1 Computing in a Costa Rican School<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m taking a class of Pepperdine University doctoral students to Costa Rica for my Global Perspectives on Learning Technologies course. While there, we&#8217;ll be going &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_wp_convertkit_post_meta":{"form":"-1","landing_page":"0","tag":"0","restrict_content":"0"},"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[479,430,427,435,428,526,434,436,429,431,438],"tags":[995,993,672,994,473,558],"class_list":["post-2094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-11-computing","category-creativity","category-education-policy","category-featured","category-general","category-leadership","category-learning","category-news","category-project-based-learning","category-teaching","category-technology","tag-costa-rica","tag-education-transformation","tag-logo","tag-omar-dengo-foundation","tag-school-reform","tag-seymour-papert"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Heading to Costa Rica! - Stager-to-Go<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/stager.tv\/?p=2094\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Heading to Costa Rica! - Stager-to-Go\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I&#8217;m taking a class of Pepperdine University doctoral students to Costa Rica for my Global Perspectives on Learning Technologies course. While there, we&#8217;ll be going &hellip;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"http:\/\/stager.tv\/?p=2094\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Stager-to-Go\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/gary.stager\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2011-05-27T16:03:41+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2011-05-27T16:04:07+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/stager.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Gary-Stager-CostaRica.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Gary Stager\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@garystager\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@garystager\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Gary Stager\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"http:\\\/\\\/stager.tv\\\/?p=2094#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"http:\\\/\\\/stager.tv\\\/?p=2094\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Gary Stager\",\"@id\":\"http:\\\/\\\/stager.tv\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/8bd320bea4758fc56f376ecdd9b8b184\"},\"headline\":\"Heading to Costa Rica!\",\"datePublished\":\"2011-05-27T16:03:41+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2011-05-27T16:04:07+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"http:\\\/\\\/stager.tv\\\/?p=2094\"},\"wordCount\":203,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"http:\\\/\\\/stager.tv\\\/?p=2094#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"http:\\\/\\\/stager.tv\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2011\\\/05\\\/Gary-Stager-CostaRica.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Costa Rica\",\"education transformation\",\"Logo\",\"Omar Dengo Foundation\",\"school reform\",\"Seymour Papert\"],\"articleSection\":[\"1:1 computing\",\"creativity\",\"education policy\",\"Featured articles\",\"general\",\"leadership\",\"learning\",\"news\",\"project-based learning\",\"teaching\",\"technology\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"http:\\\/\\\/stager.tv\\\/?p=2094#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"http:\\\/\\\/stager.tv\\\/?p=2094\",\"url\":\"http:\\\/\\\/stager.tv\\\/?p=2094\",\"name\":\"Heading to Costa Rica! - Stager-to-Go\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"http:\\\/\\\/stager.tv\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"http:\\\/\\\/stager.tv\\\/?p=2094#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"http:\\\/\\\/stager.tv\\\/?p=2094#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"http:\\\/\\\/stager.tv\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2011\\\/05\\\/Gary-Stager-CostaRica.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2011-05-27T16:03:41+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2011-05-27T16:04:07+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"http:\\\/\\\/stager.tv\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/8bd320bea4758fc56f376ecdd9b8b184\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"http:\\\/\\\/stager.tv\\\/?p=2094#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"http:\\\/\\\/stager.tv\\\/?p=2094\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"http:\\\/\\\/stager.tv\\\/?p=2094#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"http:\\\/\\\/stager.tv\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2011\\\/05\\\/Gary-Stager-CostaRica.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"http:\\\/\\\/stager.tv\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2011\\\/05\\\/Gary-Stager-CostaRica.jpg\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"http:\\\/\\\/stager.tv\\\/?p=2094#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"http:\\\/\\\/stager.tv\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Heading to Costa Rica!\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"http:\\\/\\\/stager.tv\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"http:\\\/\\\/stager.tv\\\/\",\"name\":\"Stager-to-Go\",\"description\":\"The personal blog of Gary S. Stager, Ph.D.\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"http:\\\/\\\/stager.tv\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"http:\\\/\\\/stager.tv\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/8bd320bea4758fc56f376ecdd9b8b184\",\"name\":\"Gary Stager\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/stager.tv\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2024\\\/03\\\/Gary-gravatar.png\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/stager.tv\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2024\\\/03\\\/Gary-gravatar.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/stager.tv\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2024\\\/03\\\/Gary-gravatar.png\",\"caption\":\"Gary Stager\"},\"description\":\"Veteran educator Gary Stager, Ph.D. is the author of Twenty Things to Do with a Computer - Forward 50, co-author of\u00a0Invent To Learn \u2014 Making, Tinkering, and Engineering in the Classroom, publisher at\u00a0Constructing Modern Knowledge Press,\u00a0and the founder of the\u00a0Constructing Modern Knowledge\u00a0summer institute. He led professional development in the world\u2019s first 1:1 laptop schools thirty years ago and designed one of the oldest online graduate school programs. Gary is also the curator of The Seymour Papert archives at DailyPapert.com. Learn more about\u00a0Gary here.\",\"sameAs\":[\"http:\\\/\\\/cmkpress.com\\\/gary\"],\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/stager.tv\\\/?author=2\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Heading to Costa Rica! - Stager-to-Go","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"http:\/\/stager.tv\/?p=2094","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Heading to Costa Rica! - Stager-to-Go","og_description":"I&#8217;m taking a class of Pepperdine University doctoral students to Costa Rica for my Global Perspectives on Learning Technologies course. While there, we&#8217;ll be going &hellip;","og_url":"http:\/\/stager.tv\/?p=2094","og_site_name":"Stager-to-Go","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/gary.stager\/","article_published_time":"2011-05-27T16:03:41+00:00","article_modified_time":"2011-05-27T16:04:07+00:00","og_image":[{"url":"http:\/\/stager.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Gary-Stager-CostaRica.jpg","type":"","width":"","height":""}],"author":"Gary Stager","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@garystager","twitter_site":"@garystager","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Gary Stager","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"http:\/\/stager.tv\/?p=2094#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"http:\/\/stager.tv\/?p=2094"},"author":{"name":"Gary Stager","@id":"http:\/\/stager.tv\/#\/schema\/person\/8bd320bea4758fc56f376ecdd9b8b184"},"headline":"Heading to Costa Rica!","datePublished":"2011-05-27T16:03:41+00:00","dateModified":"2011-05-27T16:04:07+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"http:\/\/stager.tv\/?p=2094"},"wordCount":203,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"http:\/\/stager.tv\/?p=2094#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"http:\/\/stager.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Gary-Stager-CostaRica.jpg","keywords":["Costa Rica","education transformation","Logo","Omar Dengo Foundation","school reform","Seymour Papert"],"articleSection":["1:1 computing","creativity","education policy","Featured articles","general","leadership","learning","news","project-based learning","teaching","technology"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["http:\/\/stager.tv\/?p=2094#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"http:\/\/stager.tv\/?p=2094","url":"http:\/\/stager.tv\/?p=2094","name":"Heading to Costa Rica! - Stager-to-Go","isPartOf":{"@id":"http:\/\/stager.tv\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"http:\/\/stager.tv\/?p=2094#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"http:\/\/stager.tv\/?p=2094#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"http:\/\/stager.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Gary-Stager-CostaRica.jpg","datePublished":"2011-05-27T16:03:41+00:00","dateModified":"2011-05-27T16:04:07+00:00","author":{"@id":"http:\/\/stager.tv\/#\/schema\/person\/8bd320bea4758fc56f376ecdd9b8b184"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"http:\/\/stager.tv\/?p=2094#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["http:\/\/stager.tv\/?p=2094"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"http:\/\/stager.tv\/?p=2094#primaryimage","url":"http:\/\/stager.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Gary-Stager-CostaRica.jpg","contentUrl":"http:\/\/stager.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Gary-Stager-CostaRica.jpg"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"http:\/\/stager.tv\/?p=2094#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"http:\/\/stager.tv\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Heading to Costa Rica!"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"http:\/\/stager.tv\/#website","url":"http:\/\/stager.tv\/","name":"Stager-to-Go","description":"The personal blog of Gary S. Stager, Ph.D.","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"http:\/\/stager.tv\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"http:\/\/stager.tv\/#\/schema\/person\/8bd320bea4758fc56f376ecdd9b8b184","name":"Gary Stager","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/stager.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Gary-gravatar.png","url":"https:\/\/stager.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Gary-gravatar.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/stager.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Gary-gravatar.png","caption":"Gary Stager"},"description":"Veteran educator Gary Stager, Ph.D. is the author of Twenty Things to Do with a Computer - Forward 50, co-author of\u00a0Invent To Learn \u2014 Making, Tinkering, and Engineering in the Classroom, publisher at\u00a0Constructing Modern Knowledge Press,\u00a0and the founder of the\u00a0Constructing Modern Knowledge\u00a0summer institute. He led professional development in the world\u2019s first 1:1 laptop schools thirty years ago and designed one of the oldest online graduate school programs. Gary is also the curator of The Seymour Papert archives at DailyPapert.com. Learn more about\u00a0Gary here.","sameAs":["http:\/\/cmkpress.com\/gary"],"url":"https:\/\/stager.tv\/?author=2"}]}},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stager.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stager.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stager.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stager.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stager.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stager.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2094\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stager.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stager.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stager.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}