Facilitator Biography

Gary Stager

For 27 years, Dr. Gary Stager, an internationally recognized educator, speaker and consultant, 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, is 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. Dr. Stager's doctoral research involved the creation a high-tech alternative learning environment for incarcerated at-risk teens.

Recent work includes teaching and mentoring some of Australia's "most troubled" public schools. He was Senior Editor of District Administration Magazine and Founding Editor of The Pulse: Education?s Place for Debate. Dr. Stager is currently Visiting Professor at Pepperdine University, an Associate of the Thornburg Center for Professional Development and the Executive Director of The Constructivist Consortium. In 1999, Converge Magazine named him a "shaper of our future and inventor of our destiny," and the National School Boards Association recognized him with the distinction of "20 Leaders to Watch" in 2007. Dr. Stager was the new media producer for The Brian Lynch/Eddie Palmieri Project - Simpatio, 2007 Grammy Award Winner for Best Latin Jazz Album of the Year.