Meaningful Making

Episode 9: Webinar with Gary Stager Part 3

Episode Summary

Gary Stager dives deep into Maker Education with the FabLearn fellows in the third and last installment of a three part series.

Episode Notes

In this last installment, we’ll discuss What it means to prepare students for the real world, how learning is not necessarily the result of having been taught and when it’s good to give instructions.

Gary Stager is one of the world’s leading experts on and advocates for computer programming, robotics and learning-by-doing in classrooms. He worked closely with Seymour Papert on a number of projects. He led professional development in the world’s first laptop schools and played a major role in the early days of online education. He is the founder of the Constructing Modern Knowledge summer institute for educators. He and our very own Sylvia Martinez are the authors of Invent to Learn.