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…
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…
Field Tripping with AI
During my recent keynotes, Computational Making workshops, and articles, such as AI, Education, and the Labubu Problem, I’ve been sharing the remarkable power of AI to help individuals create working…
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….
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…
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…
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….
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…
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…