STLinATL Handouts & Resources
Tuesday keynote: Time for Optimism
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Pandemic-era Writing
- This is Our Moment!
- Revisiting Learning Adventures in the Time of COVID-19
- The Hang
- Flip the Script
- THIS is Why Schools Exist
- Planning for the Best-Case Scenario
- Educational Zoom Activity #1
- Let COVID-19 Kill the Pencil
- Big Ideas
- If You Must, Here’s the Definitive How-To
Curated progressive education resources
8-Bit Big Band
Learn more about Gary
- Longer biography & detailed expertise
- Video library (including four TEDx talks)
- Publications by Gary Stager
- Reviews of Dr. Stager’s work
- Publicity photos
- Gary Stager’s blog
- The Daily Papert
Four Take Home Makerspaces for Under $100
Electrifying Children’s Mathematics – Tuesday – August 4, 2020
The Case for Computing: Programming Across the Curriculum – Monday – August 3, 2020
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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.
- What’s Your Hurry?
- A Modest Proposal (using Scratch books as reading texts)
- Scratch and the Negligent Homicide of Mathland
- Time for Optimism
- Our most recent newsletter
Turtle Art materials
Micro:bit
Here is a curated collection of micro:bit resources
Logo activities
These activities designed for MicroWorlds EX should be applicable to other programming environments, like Turtle Art, Scratch, Snap!, and especially Lynx. If you translate any of these activities for other languages, please let me know!
- Old-fashioned Quilt Making in an Online Collaborative Setting – Use MicroWorlds EX in this simple open-ended creativity project. (2007)
- Making Aboriginal Dreamtime Designs with MicroWorlds – An interdisciplinary project (2000)
- Gary’s Fraction Software Activity
- 21st Century Logo Quilts – A Twist on a Classic Geometry/Art Activity (1999)
- Build Your Own Virtual Pet with MicroWorlds
Make Your Own Tamagotchi ©1998-99 Adam Smith with a bit of help from Gary Stager - Turning Math Manipulatives Inside Out (1998)
- MicroWorlds Claymation – Create your own Wallace and Gromit with one line of code! (2000)
Graphing Linear Equations in Snap!
Basic Computer Games books (pdf form)
- Basic Computer Games (first edition 1973)
- More Basic Computer Games (1980)
About Gary Stager
Veteran educator Gary Stager, Ph.D. is co-author of Invent To Learn — Making, Tinkering, and Engineering in the Classroom, publisher at Constructing Modern Knowledge Press, and the founder of the Constructing Modern Knowledge summer institute. He led professional development in the world’s first 1:1 laptop schools thirty years ago and designed one of the oldest online graduate school programs. Gary began defending school music programs from the wrecking ball in 1982. Learn more about Gary or contact him here.
