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NYSCATE Summer Leadership Summit
Troy, NY
July 9, 2006

Gary S. Stager's Virtual Handout

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Unwind, Recharge, Bounce Back
Summer reading to make you a better educator
Published in the July 2006 issue of District Administration

Laptops in Adolescence
Growing pains and disappointing the elders
Published in the June 2006 issue of District Administration

Guess Why They Call it MySpace?
It's Time for Adults to Grow Up
Published in the May 2006 issue of District Administration

Sounds Great, Less Expensive
Will your school impede the creative development of your students or embrace tools that let you get out of the way? (Related to iLife '06)
Published in the March 2006 issue of District Administration

Why Thomas Friedman Does Not Compute
Gary's critical review of The World is Flat and the education community's knee-jerk reaction to it.
Published in the December 2005 issue of District Administration

Laptop Woes
Bungling the world's easiest sale
An abridged version appears in the October 2005 issue of District Administration

Gary Stager on Tech Insurgents
Do Your Teachers Need a Computing IEP?
Published in the June 2005 issue of District Administration

The Human Divide
Education is the wrong career for martyrs
Published in the Feburary 2006 issue of District Administration

Jonathan Kozol Takes on The World - By Gary Stager
This educator's latest book shines a bright light on what he calls this country's big shame -- not only are cities segregated, but the education we offer those city children is markedly worse.
Published in the January 2006 issue of District Administration

The Elephant in the Room
Race and Class in America
Published in the January 2006 issue of District Administration

Radical Reformer
Dennis Littky drew on his 30 years of education innovation to create a new school model. Now he won't be satisfied until he replicates it throughout the country. (An extensive interview with Gary Stager)
Published in the November 2005 issue of District Administration


Podcasting in Education
A large and growing collection of resources for teachers and students interested in podcasting

The Educational Technology Canon (pdf)
What informed leaders in educational technology should read.
Published in the June 2004 issue of District Administration

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Get the free SWIKI collaborative software for Mac, Windows and Linux here.

A Glossary of Blog-related terms

Scenes from the MySpace Backlash

Places to publish your large files online:

The Pew Internet and American Life Project (reports galore)

TakingITGlobal
A fantastic site for young people all over the world interested in making the planet a better place to live.

Generation YES!
Employ student tech skills and leadership as partners in teacher professional development, curriculum integration and tech support.

Wikipedia

The Book Stops Here
A terrific profile on Wikipedia, it's users and it's creator from Wired.

http://del.icio.us/
Social bookmarking site

Technorati's list of the most popular blog sites

Blog server software side-by-side feature comparison

Image-sharing Sites:

Stuff I Like
A collection of links to my favorite software tools

Creative Commons
Information wants to be free. Learn about it all here.

Texting Teenagers are Proving “more literate than ever before” (research)
Fears that text messaging has ruined the ability of teenagers to write properly may be unfounded. The two-year study found that in spite of an increase in “colloquial words, informal phrases and text-messaging shorthand...today’s teenagers are using far more complex sentence structures, a wider vocabulary and a more accurate use of capital letters, punctuation and spelling.”

Odeo
Windows users can record and publish audio using nothing more than a browser!

http://local.live.com/
Microsoft's amazing mapping project. Find the car in your driveway!

Bands Embrace Social Networking (article)
Learn what a huge impact MySpace is having on the music industry.

Report on file-sharing leading to increased legal music sales

Guide to Popular Blogging Sites

Best Blog Submission and RSS Sites (get your blog noticed!)

The Case for Computing
A chapter from the book, Snapshots! Educational Insights from the Thornburg Center

A Not-so-funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Future

The International Society for Technology in Education invited Gary to write a column for their newspaper, The Daily Leader, distributed at the 2004 National Educational Computing Conference in New Orleans. read more

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The ISTE Problem
ISTE's vague standards and an exclusionary "seal of alignment" make one wonder whose side the group is on.
Published in the February 2003 issue of District Administration

Laptop Woes
Bungling the world's easiest sale
An abridged version appears in the October 2005 issue of District Administration

Gary Stager on How Computers May Save Music Education
Express Yourself Over Summer Vacation
Published in the July 2005 issue of District Administration

Gary Stager on Tech Insurgents
Do Your Teachers Need a Computing IEP?
Published in the June 2005 issue of District Administration

Gary Stager on High-Quality Online Education
How to make your online courses better than your traditional classes.
Published in the May 2005 issue of District Administration

Gary Stager on The iPod Revolution
Are you ready for personal computing?
Published in the March 2005 issue of District Administration

Gary Stager on Tips for Effective Ed Tech
17 creative ways to enhance computer use in your district
Published in the February 2005 issue of District Administration

Gary Stager on the State of Ed Tech
Why the tech movement is on life support
Published in the January 2005 issue of District Administration

Gary Stager on the State of Ed Tech
Why the tech movement is on life support
Published in the January 2005 issue of District Administration

Let them Eat Tech Standards!
A hole in the wall as science and public policy
Published in the May 2004 issue of District Administration

When Pigs Fly - Part Two
Gary Stager's Technology Plan for America's Schools - Part Two
Published in the April 2004 issue of District Administration

When Pigs Fly - Part One
Gary Stager's Technology Plan for America's Schools - Part One
Published in the March 2004 issue of District Administration

The great thing about Gary is that he never gives up. He was there at the beginning of the great transformation of learning via the medium of portable computers, at the first school to implement laptops, Methodist Ladies College, Melbourne, in 1990. Fifteen years later, Gary's still at the forefront, still showing the way, still walking the walk in his inimitable style.

His work - particularly among the most challenged students, like the juvenile offenders incarcerated at the Maine Youth Center -- provides conclusive proof that kids can learn better through the intelligent use of technology.

- Bob Johnstone, author of Never Mind the Laptops: Kids, Computers and the Transformation of Learning,, the premiere history of laptops in education

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Gary Stager is one of the true pioneers of the 1:1 laptop movement.  His work in this area includes looking beyond the laptops to their effective application by students as true tools for learning.  Rather than seeing 1:1 computing as a vehicle for replicating older educational models, Gary sees it as a chance to transform educational practice in ways that truly prepare young people for lifelong learning.

- Dr. David Thornburg
Noted futurist, author, consultant
Thornburg Center for Professional Development

Gary is an outstanding educator who makes a powerful impact on teachers, parents and students. Gary worked with our school for five days. During that time, I was able to observe him leading faculty meetings, facilitating parent question and answer sessions and working with students in whole class settings. In each case, Gary provided quality instruction, insight and modeling of effective practices. He was able to quickly identify our specific needs and tailored his workshops and interactions accordingly. Gary is an enthusiastic, committed practitioner who challenges the status quo in a manner that promotes inquiry, reflection and substantive change. Gary keeps student learning as his central focus and left our teachers, students and parents energized and motivated to expand their view of how the learning environment can be restructured to improve engagement, motivation and achievement. Overall, it was an outstanding week and we appreciated all that Gary had to offer. 

- Lisa Mireles , Assistant Superintendent: American School of Bombay, India

 

Pointing in the Wrong Direction
PowerPoint is ruining classes by depriving students and teachers of creativity
Published in the January 2004 issue of District Administration

Why teachers don't use computers
Blocked Web sites, IT staff that exist to hinder staff, and restrictive policies make integrating technology too hard to overcome. No other column by Gary Stager has generated so many negative responses.
Published in the December 2002 issue of District Administration

Laptops in Education - Reinventing the Slate
What Silicon Valley Giveth, Schools Taketh Away
Published in the March 2003 issue of District Administration

Who Moved My Stalag?
Awakening the Leader Within
This is perhaps Gary's most provocative column yet. read more
Published in the October 2003 issue of District Administration

Leader to Leader
Inspiration for The Year Ahead from some of America's leading educators.
Published in the September 2003 issue of District Administration

The End of Textbooks
With so many vital sources of information available to students, why are schools slavishly holding onto textbooks? Digital textbooks may be worse than the real thing.
Published in the June 2003 issue of District Administration

False Profits: Expertise and Educational Computing
An extremely provocative critique of the state of educational computing by Gary Stager (April 2001)

In Defense of Seventh Grade Laptops
An unpublished letter to the editor of The Portland Press Herald newspaper (November 2000)

Laptop Schools Lead the Way in Professional Development
Gary's October 1995 article from the pages of Educational Leadership

Telling the Hyped from the Helpful
An Interview with Gary Stager for the CUE Newsletter by Stephen Marcus.

Laptops in School - A Wonderfully Cautionary Tale
This new major reflection on 10 years of work in 'laptop schools' will appear as a chapter in a book about laptop learning published by the Children's Technology Foundation entitled, Transforming Learning. For more information, click here

 

Gary Stager's role in the history of classroom-based "laptop learning" is documented in the new book, Never Mind the Laptops: Kids, Computers and the Transformation of Learning, by Bob Johnstone.


TechYes  

Gary Stager is one of the authors of the recently published TechYes! Student Guide and Implementation Guide. TechYes! is a revolutionary product that allows middle school students to earn computer literacy certification through the creation of personally-meaningful peer-reviewed projects.

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About Gary Stager
For 24 years, Gary Stager has helped learners of all ages across the globe embrace the power of computers as intellectual laboratories and vehicles for self-expression. He led professional development in the world's first laptop schools (1990), designed online graduate school programs since the mid-90s and is a collaborator in the MIT Media Lab's Future of Learning Group. Mr. Stager's doctoral research involved the creation a high-tech alternative learning environment for incarcerated at-risk teens. He is Senior Editor of District Administration Magazine, Adjunct Professor at Pepperdine University, author of the regular feature, Exceeding Expectations, for Apple Computer and an Associate of the Thornburg Center for Professional Development. In 1999, Converge Magazine named Gary a “shaper of our future and inventor of our destiny.” Gary has worked with schools, conferences and other institutions around the world and welcomes the opportunity to speak at your next event or design effective professional development services for your school.

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