The Complete Banned Collection
I’ve been writing for magazines since the late 1990s and on occasion the publisher or Editor-in-Chief objected to the content of a column and refused …
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The Best Way to Make Enemies (2008)
Do the impossible © 2008 Gary S. Stager, Ph.D. I led professional development in the world’s first two “laptop schools” back in 1990. Ever since, …
The Children’s Machine – It’s time to turn the network upside down (2008)
It’s Time to Turn the Network Upside Down Not Published by District Administration Magazine©February 2008 Gary S. Stager, Ph.D. During the mid-sixties, Seymour Papert began …
Education’s Most Dangerous Idea? Curriculum (2006)
Let’s trick ‘em into learning! Not published by District Administration – October 2006©2006 Gary S. Stager A friend called a few months back and asked me …
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Early 1990s Papers by Gary Stager
I recently located and scanned several conference papers I wrote between 1990 and 1993. The first is particularly special because it justified my first trip …
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Persistent, Dopey, and Terrible Ideas
Read this incendiary article I wrote for circulation among my friends back in 1992. I didn’t write as well then and lacked a filter for …
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No Edits
For the first time in using AI chatbots over the past two years, I entered a prompt and the system returned a nearly perfect response. …
Everything I Know about Reading Instruction I Learned from Oprah Winfrey
Today at 3, Oprah practices her schwa sound before an amazed audience! Contemporary language wars polarize and demonize advocates of phonics instruction and whole language …
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The Project Paradox
I try hard not to impose my will upon our “students.” Honest educators will confess that such temptation is hard to resist, especially when you would like students to have a particular experience or learn something specific. Add the constraints imposed by a four-day event and oh, boy do you want to teach! But resist you must!
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Not Lost Forever
Sharing seminal scholarship from the very early days of 1:1 computing in schools.