The personal blog of Gary S. Stager, Ph.D.
Consider the Source I marvel how infrequently people verify the credentials of instant experts before trusting their expertise, or worse, reposting it on social media. …
Ya Gotta Eat! Three of my favorite restaurants are within blocks of each other on the Lower East Side. This is the hilarious article that …
In 2013, Sylvia Martinez and I wrote/published Invent To Learn: Making, Tinkering, and Engineering in the Classroom. That book, called the “bible of the maker …
I recently located and scanned several conference papers I wrote between 1990 and 1993. The first is particularly special because it justified my first trip …
Note: I capitalize the name of school subjects as a convention in this piece. The unprecedented hype and hysteria surrounding generative AI chatbots reveals something …
Constructing Modern Knowledge was borne of conversations between Gary Stager and Seymour Papert about the need to create a setting where educational computing and progressive education could …
Note: A growing collection of archival documents and books related to the history of 1:1 personal computing in schools may be found here. My story… …
Our book, Invent to Learn: Making, Tinkering, and Engineering in the Classroom is being translated into Lithuanian. Ahead of the Fall release, I asked if …
For 249 years, Americans have enjoyed a day off from work to celebrate the Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest. Aside from the great Joey …
Net week, I’ll be in Zurich, Switzerland to present a paper and lead two hands-on workshops at the biennial Constructionism Conference. I’ve presented at each …
