Remida is the creative recycling centre in Reggio Emilia, Italy. It is a partnership between the city, the Fondazione Reggio Emilia, and the local utility companies. Created in 1996, Remida…
How Do Giraffes Sleep? The Evolution of Knowledge Democratization
In Obsolete Skill Set: The 3 Rs — Literacy and Letteracy in the Media Ages (1993), Seymour Papert made a distinction between literacy and letteracy, as a way to think…
Handout 2026
Basic Computer Games Project Inspiration Handbook Computational Making Materials The Eight Big Ideas Behind Constructionism by Seymour Papert (in multiple languages) Messing About articles Logo books, articles, and historical texts….
Carla Rinaldi of Reggio Emilia’s Thoughts on AI
Carla Rinaldi, one of the great educators and educational philosophers of the past half century, passed in April 2025. Today, while attending an event celebrating the life, work, and powerful…
Why Is A 60-Year-Old AI Argument Suddenly Everywhere?
By Gary S. Stager, PhD & Sylvia Martinez In 1965, Hubert Dreyfus, a philosophy professor at MIT, wrote a paper arguing that artificial intelligence was heading toward a dead end….
Educating is a Political Act
The following is a newspaper editorial authored by the President of Fondazione Reggio Children (translated into English). It was published mere weeks before our institute, The Language of Computation –…
A Macro Look at Microworlds (working paper)
I just released a new working paper titled “A Macro Look at Microworlds: Teachers Designing Small Worlds Where Big Ideas Live,” and I would love for you to take a…
AI Fuels My Imagination
During a recent social media “discussion” of the increasing calls to get “screens” out of classrooms, a reader remarked: When 1:1 came in, it became easier to be less deliberate…
Celebrating Moral Clarity – A Book Club Invitation
There are few more occasions for celebration than the publication of a new book by civil rights activist, educator, and National Book Award-winning author Jonathan Kozol. For six decades, Kozol…
Grazie, Carla!
I was just reminded that today marks the first anniversary of my friend Carla Rinaldi’s untimely passing. There isn’t a day that passes without me thinking about something I learned…