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 …
3DPAC 2020 is a conference on 3D printing, scanning, modeling, and designing in higher education instruction and scholarship, sponsored by James Madison University Libraries. Join us in April 2020 to share your work, learn from the community, and tour our …
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Read the review of the newly expanded edition of Invent to Learn: Making, Tinkering, and Engineering in the Classroom from Hello World magazine here. Buy the book
Gary and Sylvia will lead one day workshops in Texas – April 8-12, 2019. Details and registration information can be found here.
Sylvia will be the opening keynote and lead a workshop at FabLearn 2019 at Columbia University Teachers College, New York City, NY. Keynote: Making the Future: The Future of Making March 9, 2019 Making in education connects educators around the world …
Following speaking at the prestigious WISE Conference in Qatar (November 2017), Gary Stager delivered a keynote address on learning-by making at a conference held at The American University in Cairo. The video is finally available.
Last spring, Gary Stager was interviewed at the National Futureschools Conference in Melbourne, Australia. The result was published in September 2018 in New Zealand’s LeadershipEd Magazine. A pdf of the freewheeling interview may be read here.
Once-in-a-lifetime workshop in Boston on October 5th! Classroom Making, Tinkering, and Engineering in a Reggio Emilia Context – The Language of Technology This is a unique one-time only workshop combining a hands-on Invent To Learn workshop with a visit to the extraordinary Wonder …
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Gary Stager and Sylvia Martinez will be speaking again at the largest Maker Faire in the world. The topic of their presentation is Invent To Learn at Five – A Celebration and Lessons for the Future of Making in Schools. Zone …
Sylvia Martinez will participate in a roundtable discussion with members of the policy advocacy working group “Stati Generali dell’Innovazione” https://www.statigeneralinnovazione.it/online/, on how developments in open source, social networking, and social media impact educational practices and policies. This group works to …