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….
Wunderkammer / Gabinetto delle Curiosità
I often wonder if kids still wonder and wonder what we can do about it? – Gary Stager, Founder of Constructing Modern Knowledge Each year, Constructing Modern Knowledge begins with…
Computation Makes Learning Visible
In the previous two essays, Digital < Computational and The Case for Computation, I explore the power of computation and computational making in learning. This final chapter makes the explicit…
The Case for Computation
In this series’ first essay, I make the case that there are two kinds of computer-based projects, digital and computational ones. I assert that the greatest educational value is to…
Digital < Computational
In my essay, When You Wake Seymour Papert in the Middle of the Night, in the book Twenty Things to Do with a Computer Forward 50: Future Visions of Education…