Gary Stager: My Hope For School
Posted on: August 20, 2009
Posted in: Education System, Next Generation, Stager, Gary
Gary Stager, an internationally recognized educator and consultant, has spent twenty-six years helping teachers on six continents make sense of their roles in the age of personal computing and schools more constructive places for children. Gary is Executive Director of The Constructivist Consortium, a member of the One Laptop Per Child Learning Team, collaborator at MIT Media Lab Future of Learning Group, and co-founder & co-director of We Learn@Home providing educational services for home schoolers.
When pigs fly: Gary Stager’s technology plan for America’s schools.(Speaking Out): An article from: District Administration
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October 20th, 2009 at 5:33 pm
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October 20th, 2009 at 6:04 pm
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October 21st, 2009 at 7:22 am
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October 24th, 2009 at 3:54 pm
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October 24th, 2009 at 4:10 pm
Then why do we need “school” at all? The whole world is a school. Why limit formal education to a box in my neighborhood when there is an entire planet from which to learn?
October 24th, 2009 at 6:16 pm
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November 10th, 2009 at 1:07 am
[...] “We don’t need to have schools that create winners and losers, we don’t have to grade and rank and sort and label kids the way we do. We can create environments where kids want to be and, in fact that’s the only future that’s viable for schools because there’s going to be all sorts of competing interests.” ~ Gary Stager http://www.imagineitproject.com/?p=2249 [...]
December 31st, 2009 at 12:59 am
I know precisely what you mean about concentration, it makes a WORLD of difference. Great suggestion.
July 5th, 2010 at 9:00 pm
Wow, Awesome post – Gary Stager: My Hope For School | Imagine it! was a great read. I’m such a newbie when it comes to all this, Thanks for this!