Resources for All
- Collaborate with Gary Stager – bring Gary to your conference, school, or district
- Learn more about Gary Stager, Ph.D.
- Gary Stager’s blog, Stager-to-Go
- Books by Creative Educators for Creative Educators
- Invent to Learn (book) web site
- Schools are My Happy Place by Gary Stager
- Wunderkammer, a unique take on inspiring project-based learning by Gary Stager
- The Constructing Modern Knowledge Podcast hosted by Gary Stager
- Summer Reading Recommendations for Educators (updated 2024)
- Our favorite software high-tech tools, books, and resources for creative educators
- Constructive, Creative, Playful Computing Options for Children & Families
Two Remarkable Learning Adventures
Constructing Modern Knowledge Australia
August 12-15, 2025
Constructing Modern Knowledge
- The Menu of Nutritious Computational Environments for Learning
- Turtle Art software link and resources
- MakeCode
- Turtlestitch
- SNAP! software with Hummingbird or Finch blocks (use to program the Hummingbird Bit)
- micro:bit one-hour challenges and radio tutorial
- Seymour Papert’s Eight Big Ideas Behind Constructionist Learning
- Constructive, Creative, Playful Computing Options for Children & Families
- Logo history, resources, & digital books
- The history of 1:1 personal computing in schools
- Program your own Gameboy
- Our favorite software high-tech tools, books, and resources for creative educators
- Creating a Finch microworld (for young learners) and Finch-related AI resources
- Using the micro:bit, Octostudio, microBlocks, and a programmable backpack in a project
- Fantastic new book, The Invent To Learn Guide to the micro:bit
- Do you know the mother of educational technology?
- Wolfram Language and math resources, including videos
- Useful to the Point of Being Revolutionary: Introducing Wolfram Notebook Assistant by Stephen Wolfram (December 2024)
- Logo Overnight by Mitchel Resnick
A collection of Logo programming challenges taking advantage of computing power and time.
Two Conversations with Stephen Wolfram about computation.
The Kawasaki podcast is particularly clarifying. The conversation with Howard Gardner is great too.
Computational AI Resources
- Gary’s ISTELive 24 paper, Generative AI as Mathland and Constructionist Frontier
- Lots! by Gary Stager – in this article, Gary makes a case for computing
- Coding in the Age of AI Workshop Recording & Resources, including the code & experiments related to the ISTE 24 paper
- AI in Education Reading List
- Download the free whitepaper, Game-Changing AI Tools for Education, written by Gary Stager
- Learn more about AI in Education, its history and potential here
- Read Five Ways Constructing Modern Knowledge has Roots in AI
- Tutorials for machine learning and AI projects using the Finch robot or Hummingbird Robotics Kit
- Machine learning with the BBC micro:bit activity and tools by Aarhus University
For Over-Achievers
Here are some things to read or watch to begin thinking about AI and computational fluency.
- Obsolete Skill Set: The 3 Rs — Literacy and Letteracy in the Media Ages by Seymour Papert
- What is Logo? And Who Needs It? by Seymour Papert
- Stephen Wolfram’s Introduction to the Wolfram Language (13-minute video)
- What is Wolfram Language – An interview with Stephen Wolfram (40-minute video)
- What is a Computational Essay? by Stephen Wolfram
- How to Teach Computational Thinking by Stephen Wolfram
- Game Over for Maths A-level by Conrad Wolfram
- Will AIs Take All Our Jobs and End Human History—or Not? Well, It’s Complicated… by Stephen Wolfram
- ChatGPT Gets Its “Wolfram Superpowers”! – by Stephen Wolfram
Free Trial Version of Wolfram Notebook Assistant
An AI chatbot frontend onto the Wolfram Language computational system.
