Guy's Edu Blog

Amateur is a word used often as a derogatory term. The professional mutters "amateur!" I would like to suggest that schools need...

I see this in many districts I work with. As new devices are brought in, someone has the "talk". Do not break them, if you take ...

The standrd movement and the Common Core that emerged from it have been with us for so long that we only ask what standards and not whether ...

I was traveling with my kids this weekend across two states and the majestic views of the plains and the west. If measured correctly at the ...

Some people always call for back to basics. Decoding memorizing facts and old technologies (for example cursive writing). As the day No Ch...

  by    Andrew Beeston   We had the  TechEDGE 12  conference on campus two weeks ago. Rick Marlatt presented about Minecraft . He was e...

My two youngest kids have been playing minecraft for quite a long time. For those who are not familiar with minecraft think of a game plat...

At another academic year's end I have much to reflect on so this post is the first of a few that will try to help me think through and...

So Enjoyed myself immensely at EdCampOmaha. At the same time my brain could not stop thinking about ways we could make it better. These are ...

 Papa Celestin’s band Circa 1927 Let me start with full disclosure. I know fairly little about music. In a sense my musical taste is non...

QuizUp is one of these flash in the pan games that takes the mobile world in a storm. In less than two months it amassed over 5 milli...

I believe we stand at the dawn of a great change in education. Technology is forcing schools to change as it does society at large. The di...

My son, now seven, had a wonderful time with the Talking Ginger app last year. The app allows him to talk at Ginger the cat and Ginger repe...

Too many ideas are running through my head this morning I will try however to stay coherent. This week we had a visiting group of teache...

The Bridge is a new FX TV show that I picked up on demand recently. The topic of a thriller around the border crossing between the US an...

We are now summarizing our first (funded) year of Tech EDGE- Educating in Digital and Global Environments. The premise for Tech EDGE was to ...

Last week I happened to be talking about technology to a teacher when someone (not a k12 educator) intervened and said in complete confide...

A few weeks ago I found "The Room" from Fireproof Games  for my iPad. It is a beautifully executed puzzle game but that is not t...

My wife and I had a discussion a few days ago about high school requirements in our school district. I highlighted the fact that the requi...

We have used iPads in the Reading Center all summer. I decided to include unedited comments of some of my students who ag...