What's the Big Idea?
A podcast about big ideas in education. Tune in to listen and think, then respond on Instagram @_dankearney_ and Bluesky @dankearney
What's the Big Idea?
Constructing Learning with Dr. Gary Stager
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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:
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