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Gary Stager’s Approach to Teaching Programming Masterclass Video & Resources

By Gary Stager Posted on June 21, 2020 Posted in professional learning, resources, video, webinar

On June 18th, Dr. Gary Stager led an online masterclass, “Gary Stager’s Approach to Teaching Programming.” Below is video of the masterclass and resources related to the session. Subscribe to learn about upcoming events Articles mentioned during the masterclass What’s …

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Program your Own Gameboy!

By Gary Stager Posted on November 14, 2019 Posted in articles, getting started, Invent to Learn Guides, professional learning, projects, recommendations, resources, reviews

In 1971, Seymour Papert and Cynthia Solomon authored a prescient paper, Twenty Things to Do with a Computer. The ways in which my friends suggested using computers as intellectual laboratories and vehicles for self expression remain sadly elusive in too …

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Graphing Linear Equations in Snap!

By Gary Stager Posted on November 6, 2019 Posted in articles, Invent to Learn Guides, projects, resources

  Snap! is a block based language created by the University of California at Berkeley and used in their first year computer science courses, as well as the high school AP Computer Science Principles Beauty and Joy of Computing curriculum. …

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ISTE Celebrates the Father of EdTech – Seymour Papert’s Legacy and Powerful Ideas

By Gary Stager Posted on June 25, 2018 Posted in No Comments

Dr. Gary Stager will lead the presentation, “ISTE Celebrates the Father of EdTech – Seymour Papert’s Legacy and Powerful Ideas,” at his 31st ISTE/NECC Conference as a presenter.  

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Logo Exchange Archives – A Digital Treasure

By Gary Stager Posted on December 5, 2016 Posted in articles, resources

I humbly share with you the digital archives of one of the longest-running journals in the history of computing in schools, Logo Exchange.

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The Invent To Learn Guide to Block Programming

By Gary Stager Posted on May 4, 2015 Posted in Invent to Learn Guides, resources

For decades, the dream of programming computers without words or the ability to make syntax errors had eluded computer scientists. Today, is the dawn of a new era in block programming languages designed for children to learn with, control their …

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Hummingbird Resources

By Gary Stager Posted on March 9, 2015 Posted in resources

New – The best of both worlds, Hummingbird Robotics Kits are now powered by the BBC micro:bit! The Invent to Learn Quickstart Guide to the Hummingbird Bit Robotics Kit  new We love the Hummingbird Robot Kit at Constructing Modern Knowledge. …

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This is Our Moment

By Gary Stager Posted on August 23, 2014 Posted in articles, video

This is the paper accompanying Gary Stager’s plenary address at the 3rd International Constructionism Conference in Vienna, Austria, August 19-23, 2014. (Link to video) Abstract – In this plenary address, the speaker will share three societal trends that validate and vindicate decades of leadership by …

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Constructionism 2014 (Gary plenary speaker)

By Gary Stager Posted on August 19, 2014 Posted in No Comments

Gary Stager will once again be a plenary speaker at this biannual academic conference, formerly known as Eurologo. Update: Video of the session.

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Electrifying Children’s Mathematics – 10 September – Melbourne

By Gary Stager Posted on August 21, 2013 Posted in events

          There may be no greater gap between a discipline and the teaching done in its name than when the beauty, power and mystery of mathematics become maths instruction. One can only begin to address the systemic …

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