Gary Stager

Dr. Gary Stager is an internationally known educator, author, and advocate for teaching and learning rooted in Constructivist theory. With a career spanning more than 40 years, he has worked with learners of all ages, from preschool into doctoral studies. He travels the world as a keynote speaker, inspiring educators to establish classroom environments where students learn by doing. He is currently also an active publisher and CEO with Cymbal Press and Constructing Modern Knowledge Press.  Some of his best-known work includes: 

• Stager, G. (2013, June) Papert’s Prison Fab Lab: Implications for the maker movement and education design. In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children (IDC '13) (pp. 487-490). ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/2485760.2485811   

• Martinez, S.L. & Stager, G. (2019). Invent to learn: Making, tinkering, and engineering in the classroom (2nd ed.). Constructing Modern Knowledge Press.

• Stager, G. (2021). Twenty Things to Do with a Computer Forward 50: Future Visions of Education Inspired by Seymour Papert and Cynthia Solomon’s Seminal Work. Torrance, CA: Constructing Modern Knowledge Press. 

Video:

• Care Less —Mr. Stager's fourth and most recent TEDx Talk

Websites:

• Google Scholar

• ProfessorGaryStager.com