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…
Unlike Any Other PD or Study Tour
What if I told you that five-year-olds in Reggio Emilia, Italy were programming computers in 1990? That Loris Malaguzzi, the visionary behind what many consider the finest schools on Earth,…
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….
7-Minute AI
Lots of resources shared below Colleagues and fellow educators have noticed how every sentence uttered about education these days includes a noun, a verb, and AI. Grand reports on the…
Revolutions are Seldom Cute
Educational rhetoric has long been rife with obfuscation, euphemism, and verbal inflation. Teacher is no longer in vogue. Facilitator or leader are preferable. Six-year-olds are called scholars. Middle managers hold…
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…