ITD TALKS: 20 Lessons from 20 Years of 1:1 Computing

Dr. Gary Stager, Ph.D.
Executive Director: The Constructivist Consortium
20 Lessons from 20 Years of 1:1 Computing
November 17, 2011, 8:00 – 12:30
CNYRIC, Rodax 8

No educator has more experience leading professional development in as many 1:1 schools as Dr. Gary Stager. During this keynote, Gary will reflect upon lessons learned in the twenty years since he worked with the world's first laptop schools (1990). Twenty pivotal lessons will be shared with video-based examples and recommendations for sustaining innovation. This session focuses on teaching, learning, curriculum, planning, policy, leadership, and implementation issues.

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Gary Stager, an internationally recognized educator, speaker and consultant, is the Executive Director of The Constructivist Consortium. Since 1982, Gary has helped learners of all ages on six continents 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), has designed online graduate school programs since the mid-90s, was a collaborator in the MIT Media Lab's Future of Learning Group and a member of the One Laptop Per Child Foundation's Learning Team. Stager's doctoral research involved working with longtime colleague, Dr. Seymour Papert, on the creation a high-tech alternative learning environment for incarcerated at-risk teens. This work documented Papert's most-recent institutional research project. Gary's recent work has included teaching and mentoring some of Australia's "most troubled" public schools, launching 1:1 computing in a Korean International School beginning in the first grade, media appearances in Peru and leading a middle school S.T.E.M. project in Brooklyn. He was a Visiting Professor at Pepperdine University, Senior Editor of District Administration Magazine and Founding Editor of The Pulse: Education's Place for Debate. His advocacy on behalf of creativity, computing and children led to the creation of the Constructivist Consortium and the Constructing Modern Knowledge summer institute.