September 30th with Gary Stager, PhD
7 PM Eastern / 4 PM Pacific
What’s on your mind?
It occurred to us at Constructing Modern Knowledge HQ that we haven’t hosted a community event in a while. Please join us online for a conversation about anything that’s on your mind and feel free to ask Gary anything.
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Some of the stuff I’m thinking about these days…
- Unrealized potential of the maker movement in education – Foreword to the forthcoming Lithuanian edition of Invent To Learn
- A new article I wrote about AI cheating hysteria and what good teaching might look like going forward.
- The Best School in the World (my favorite school)
- Making project-based learning richer – a discussion I’ve been having on LinkedIn. One might think of this as neoliberalism vs. project-based learning.
- My most recent published conference paper is a rumination on the state of progressive education movements and leadership – Papert, Parables, and the Future of Constructionism.
- My career began advocating for music education and somehow, I’m still at it. The arts as a worthy, beautiful, even practical pursuit is rarely part of future of school discussions, even though it is one of the only ways in which schools remain viable and even jobs depend on it. In the best of scenarios, the arts are viewed as a means to achieving the “more important” priorities of other disciplines and are rarely, if ever, thought of as a worthy end in themselves. (comments on a social media post)
- Learning Adventures – A tour of my new project-based learning workshops is planned for the Fall. Learn more at https://learning.constructingmodernknowledge.com
- Rhetoric around the “science of learning,” “science of reading,” and the rise of explicit direct instruction is a form of pedagogical authoritarianism making schools not only joyless and less effective, but a threat to democracy.
- The antidote to the “science of learning” is reinvesting in the “art of teaching.”
- The last thing we should be teaching is entrepreneurship.
- The important distinction between digital and computational
- Is everybody so creative?
