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…
Computation & The Reggio Emilia Approach
TL;DR — But Please Don’t Skip This One — Free White Paper! Loris Malaguzzi gifted us the metaphor of a hundred languages of children. This whitepaper argues that computation belongs…
Every Educator Deserves This
Imagine self-care that benefits your students and community If you’re anything like me, life is kicking my butt. War, political divisiveness, the economy, social media trolls, threats to democracy, the…
The Future is Computational (keynote recording)
On March 19th, Dr. Gary Stager delivered a keynote address via Zoom to a Lithuanian conference on engineering in education. The talk was recorded and may be enjoyed as an…