Guy's Edu Blog

AI and Creativity created by ChatGPT-4 This week, I spent two days at the Nebraska Educational Technology Association meeting in Omaha. It w...

© Copyright  wfmillar Toward the end of class on Tuesday, one of my students asked: "we have only one grade on the grade book, is t...

Matt asked me this week what I thought about the Hour of Code . I answered honestly that I simply do not think it is enough. He continued ...

Jeff Bernadt presented today and included a segment on creativity. Creativity is not just a message for us as teachers, it is also for our...

I think that most early childhood experts in the last few years have been both amazed and annoyed at the "discovery" of the impo...

We have recently finished a parent survey in rural Nebraska about digital technology use. A few things became clear (though not really sur...

Last week I had the chance to speak at the E N Thompson Forum as a warm up act for the inspiring Milton Chen. I decided to talk about what c...

A quick look at our most popular videos for 2014 shows that the topics of Apps for English learners is consistently at the top of the list ...

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...

In the last couple of weeks I have observed a few classrooms from Kindergarten to middle school using Minecraft  EDU to support  21st cent...

A new semester is upon me. A colleague mentioned today that we are lucky to restart twice a year. A new life a new opportunity to make it ...

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...

This week I have been thinking of the befits of gaming. It started as Jason initiated a conversation about MinecraftEDU . This was combine...

I caught the middle piece of a radio lab broadcast on choice. In it Gladwell (of Outliers and Blink ) discusses the impact of explainin...

One of my new colleagues Lauren Gatti has recently summarized her research interest as "The ways teachers are alchemizing a crappy c...

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...

A couple of weeks ago I caught Salman Khan on CNN. I have been a critic of Khan at times, but I do have to admit that the "unpolished...

Last year my students had iPads in elementary classrooms. The school had a set of iPads that was sitting idle most of the time, yet the teac...

Photo from: yoursmallbusinessgrowth.com Let me start by saying that I have never been part of a tech startup so my view may very well be...

My six years old son has been asking me to help him spell lately. "Dad" he shouts from the general vicinity of the TV "ho...