My brand new article about interactive white boards
And What Do YOU Mean by Learning?
The Year of the Laptop (new article 10/10)
Three articles on effective project-based learning by Gary Stager (2008 - 2010)
Wanna Be a School Reformer? You Better Do Your Homework First (recommended books)
Recommended Tinkering books
The truth about India's "$35 Laptop"
Assessing Technology Literacy: The Case for an Authentic, Project-Based Learning Approach (PDF)
Seymour Papert's long-lost 1990 speech (transcript) on school transformation, Perestroika and Epistemological Pluralism
The Original Twenty Things to Do With a Computer (1971) by Seymour Papert
Teaching Children Thinking (1971) by Seymour Papert
A New Paradigm for Evaluating the Learning Potential of an EdTech Activity
Recommended Books for Creative Modern Educators
Gary's Latest Newsletter (including summer reading suggestions)
Archive of previous newsletters
lots of resources
Gary's articles in The Huffington Post
Constructing Modern Knowledge Blog
Three articles on effective project-based learning (PDF)
The 1996 Whitepaper by Gary Stager mentioned during his presentation.
The Book Every Educator Should Read (2/28/2010)
Books for Combatting Current Education Policies
Want to know who is trying to takeover public education? Read Gary Stager's cover story, School Wars, from GOOD Magazine
Gary Stager's recent spotlight presentation from the National Educational Computing Conference (high-quality video) - Learning Adventures: Transforming Real and Virtual Learning Environments
Gary Stager's recent keynote debate from NECC - Recipe for a Disruptive Keynote
Articles and papers by Dr. Stager
My manifesto for excellent teachers and principals
Computing and the Internet in Schools: An International Perspective on Developments and Directions
From the archives, a monograph written by Gary S. Stager, Ph.D. in 1996
Passport to The Best Educational Ideas in the World
Short biography
Gary S. Stager, Ph.D.
Executive Director: The Constructivist Consortium
Since 1982, Gary Stager, an internationally recognized educator, speaker and consultant, has helped learners of all ages on six continents embrace the power of computers as intellectual laboratories and vehicles for self-expression. He led professional development in the world's first laptop schools (1990), has designed online graduate school programs since the mid-90s, is a collaborator in the MIT Media Lab's Future of Learning Group and a member of the One Laptop Per Child Foundation's Learning Team. Mr. Stager's doctoral research involved the creation a high-tech alternative learning environment for incarcerated at-risk teens. Recent work includes teaching and mentoring some of Australia's "most troubled" public schools. Gary was a Visiting Professor at Pepperdine University Senior Editor of District Administration Magazine and Founding Editor of The Pulse: Education’s Place for Debate. He is an associate of the Thornburg Center and isthe Executive Director of The Constructivist Consortium. In 1999, Converge Magazine named Gary a "shaper of our future and inventor of our destiny." The National School Boards Association recognized Dr. Stager with the distinction of "20 Leaders to Watch" in 2007. The June 2010 issue of Tech & Learning Magazine named Gary Stager as "one of today's leaders who are changing the landscape of edtech through innovation and leadership."
Dr. Stager was a keynote speaker at the 2009 National Educational Computing Conference before an audience of more than 4,000 educators. He was also a Visiting Scholar at The University of Melbourne's Trinity College during the summer of 2009.
Gary was the new media producer for The Brian Lynch/Eddie Palmieri Project - Simpatíco, 2007 Grammy Award Winner for Best Latin Jazz Album of the Year. Dr. Stager is also a contributor to The Huffington Post and a consultant to leading school architecture firm, Fielding Nair International.
Learning Adventures: A new approach for transforming real and virtual classroom environments - Paper for ACEC 2008
Daniel Pink's book, "A Whole New Mind," Worst book of the 21st Century (review by Gary Stager)
high school student discussions of the book with Gary Stager, period 4 and period 5
Join the Constructivist Consortium!
Bridging Differences - a emi-weekly critical writing on school policy issues - a must read!
Laptop Woes
Bungling the world's easiest sale
An abridged version appears in the October 2005 issue of District Administration
Why Thomas Friedman Does Not Compute
Gary's critical review of The World is Flat and the education community's knee-jerk reaction to it.
Published in the December 2005 issue of District Administration
A Schoolmaster of the Great City: A Progressive Education Pioneer's Vision for Urban Schools (book from 1917) by Angelo Patri
Gary Stager's article about Australian Deputy PM Julia Gillard's education adviser, Educators can learn nothing from Chancellor Klein’s visit (from Crikey)