Constructing Learning with Dr. Gary Stager

In which Dan chats with Dr. Gary Stager, teacher, professor, author, and consultant (among other things) and a true constructivist. Gary is the founder of the Constructing Modern Knowledge summer institute for educators and the co-author of Invent To Learn – Making, Tinkering, and Engineering in the Classroom. Dan and Gary talk about Gary's dear friend, the late Seymour Papert, and the meaning of a computer in a classroom, phones in schools, Gary's experience teaching in a prison in Maine, and why reading from actual books is so vital. As always I welcome comments and questions on BlueSky @dankearney and on Instagram @BigIdeaEd Mentioned in the episode: Invent to Learn: Making, Tinkering, and Engineering in the Classroom by Gary Stager Twenty Things to Do with a Computer Forward 50 by Gary Stager The Children's Machine: Rethinking School in the Age of the Computer by Seymour Papert Seymour Papert Obituary from MIT News Torture in a Maine Prison from Prison Legal News Mathworlds, the Substack from Dan Meyer From Lunchboxes to Laptops: How Maine Went One-to-One by Audrey Waters The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt The Most Compelling Argument Against Tech in Schools from Haidt's After Babel Substack Music: SPEAKEASY STRUT royalty free Music by Giorgio Di Campo for @FreeSound Music http://freesoundmusic.eu