Happy Women’s History Month! Long before makerspaces became common in schools, before Maker Faire captured imaginations, and before STEAM evolved into a buzzword, Constructing Modern Knowledge has been the summer…
The Mother of Educational Computing
Meet Cynthia Solomon There’s chatter from time-to-time within the edtech community about the lack of women in prominent roles. Yet, some of the most important pioneers in the field are…
Time to Make Something WITH AI
Yesterday, I led a new workshop, Computational Making & Learning, for the first time in Melbourne, Australia. Although there is always room for improvement, the workshop was a great success….
Computational Making & Learning for Creative Educators
Dr. Gary Stager is bringing an exciting new workshop to Melbourne, Victoria 27 February 2026! Computational making recognizes that the future is computational. Making things with code expands the creative…
Our Roots: Logo, Piaget, and AI
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 dance together. Papert, the father…
2025 Elegy
Phew! What a year. Aside from the normal trials and tribulations of passing time, 2025 has been filled with an intolerable level of chaos and darkness. Worst of all, I…
Super Earlybird Registration Ends December 1st
It’s a great joy to introduce educators to their heroes/sheroes and creating learning adventures they never dreamed were possible. That’s why Gary spent fifteen years cultivating relationships with the wise…
Invent To Learn – Now in Lithuanian!
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 movement in schools,” is arguably…
Join us in Reggio Emilia – June 15-19, 2026
Scenes from the 2025 Language of Computation institute in Reggio Emilia Registration is now open for a life-changing professional learning event, The Language of Computation – Constructing Modern Knowledge in…
Carla Rinaldi & Edith Ackermann in Conversation
The video (below) is a very special one. It features two of my sheroes, Dr. Edith Ackermann and Carla Rinaldi in conversation at the 2016 Constructing Modern Knowledge summer institute….