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Gary S. Stager, PhD

CEO
Constructing Modern Knowledge
Torrance, California

• Inducted into the inaugural COSN's Edtech Time Capsule

In addition to being a popular keynote speaker at some of the world’s most prestigious education conferences, Gary Stager is a journalist, teacher educator, consultant, professor, software developer, publisher, and school administrator. An elementary teacher by training, he has taught students from preschool through doctoral studies. In 1990, Dr. Stager led professional development in the world’s first laptop schools and played a major role in the early days of online education. Gary is the founder of the Constructing Modern Knowledge institute for educators.

Dr. Stager is co-author of Invent To Learn – Making, Tinkering, and Engineering in the Classroom, called the “bible of the maker movement in schools.” That book has been translated into ten languages.

When Piaget wanted to better understand how children learn mathematics, he hired Seymour Papert. When Papert wanted to create a high-tech alternative learning environment for incarcerated at-risk teens, he hired Gary Stager. This doctoral dissertation and documented Papert’s most-recent institutional research project.

Dr. Stager earned a Ph.D. in Science and Mathematics Education and he collaborated on a project that won a Grammy Award. Gary has been welcomed by Fondazione Reggio Children to teach children, lead public seminars and teach doctoral students in Reggio Emilia, Italy as well.

Gary is also on the advisory board of the NSF-funded project, BJC4NYC: Bringing a Rigorous Computer Science Principles Course to the Largest School System in the US. Dr. Stager also maintains the world’s largest archive of text and multimedia by Seymour Papert at The Daily Papert.

All of Dr. Stager's work is rooted in flexibility, computational making, progressive traditions, the rights of children, and embracing the unpredictable challenges of the future.

Awards, publications, clients, video samples, podcasts, books, articles and testimonials may be found at http://professorgarystager.com/
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