{"id":806,"date":"2009-12-19T19:35:16","date_gmt":"2009-12-20T00:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stager.tv\/?p=806"},"modified":"2009-12-19T20:19:54","modified_gmt":"2009-12-20T01:19:54","slug":"read-by-10-million-times-more-people-than-my-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stager.tv\/?p=806","title":{"rendered":"Read by 10 Million Times More People than My Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am quoted in this weekend&#8217;s edition of <a title=\"Parade Magazine Web Site\" href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/6i5mRu\" target=\"_blank\">Parade Magazine<\/a>. After a long conversation with a reporter, fact-checking and a several month delay, I have two sentences in the article, <em><a title=\"Can Video Games Teach Kids?\" href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/5zpsGO\" target=\"_blank\">Can Video Games Teach Kids?<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Parade has a circulation of 33,000,000 and is read by &#8220;<a title=\"Parade Magazine circulation\" href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/6w94T3\" target=\"_blank\">72.775 million Americans every week.<\/a>&#8221; By my calculations, that&#8217;s approximately 10 million times more readers than the number of people who read my blog. It&#8217;s <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 5px; float: right;\" title=\"Parade Magazine Cover\" src=\"http:\/\/www.parade.com\/images\/-v4\/home\/2009\/1220\/122009COV-big.jpg\" alt=\"Parade Magazine Cover\" width=\"200\" height=\"215\" \/>9.9999 million times the number of edubloggers in the universe.<\/p>\n<p>There are other benefits of being quoted in Parade Magazine:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I&#8217;m finally in a publication read by my mother!<\/li>\n<li>I found a yummy recipe for <em><a title=\"recipe\" href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/6sbMNp\" target=\"_blank\">Cinnamon Pinwheels<\/a><\/em> right before the article on <em><a title=\"Diabetes article\" href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/6Cxdxx\" target=\"_blank\">How to Manage Your Diabetes<\/a><\/em> (not eating the cinnamon pinwheels?)<\/li>\n<li>Who knew that <a title=\"Ryan Seacrest\" href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/7kJCcl\" target=\"_blank\">Ryan Seacrest<\/a> wakes up at 4 AM?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Parade<\/em> contacted me based on a 2007 article I published in District Administration Magazine, <em><a title=\"Edugaming article by Gary Stager\" href=\"http:\/\/www.districtadministration.com\/viewarticle.aspx?articleid=1172\" target=\"_blank\">Edugaming &#8211; A Bad Idea for All Ages<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>One day I&#8217;ll write at greater length about the ridiculous assumptions underlying the creation of a school built on a video game curriculum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am quoted in this weekend&#8217;s edition of Parade Magazine. 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