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 awesome impact or failure of…
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…
CNN Feature on the Reggio Emilia Approach®
I’m pretty sure I knew this existed, but forgot. Here’s a pretty good peek at the genius of The Reggio Emilia Approach at play in Reggio Emilia and how it…
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….
Carla Rinaldi (1947 – 2025)
[April 18, 2025] For 15+ years, I dreamed of sharing Reggio Emilia with educators from across the globe and to collaborate with our brilliant Italian colleagues in pursuit of research…
3 Steps to Project-Based Learning
In Time for Optimism, I explored how progressive, learner-centered ideas, like project-based learning were becoming more popular, at least among elites choosing educational experiences for their children. That’s obviously a…