Guy's Edu Blog

I have a large digital footprint with hundreds of blog posts and video series with over 100,000 views. In addition I put everything I publ...

Knee Replacement Vimeo  I have been recovering from ACL surgery in the last two weeks. As I move (with difficulty) about, many passers-b...

Children's Games , 1560,  Pieter Bruegel the Elder Kristen Bailey recently shared this article : Screentime Is Making Kids Moody, C...

Photo by mpclemens CC The 2012 NAEP look at student achievement composing on computers were published recently (December, 2015). The r...

Tech EDGE Parent Meeting in China Jan 2015 When we started using iPads in the Reading Center, we added a session about technology to our...

(Almost) Thirty years ago I jumped out of an airplane. It was after about a week of practice, and I knew I wasn't ready. Our guide dis...

My students showed up to class.  Smiling,  energetic,  purposeful.  Most with bags full of stuff. Less than third had devices (other than ph...

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

I was playing a quiet game of Candy Crush yesterday and my 8 (soon to be 9) year old son Itai came and sat next to me. For me, casual games...

My dean directed me toward an opinion article in the prestigious New York Times by Susan Pinker . The title was "can students have too ...

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

It seems that I got to the end of textbooks in my classes. This week I had an email from my contact at the book store. "What are your...

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

I've been working without a textbook this semester and discovered that my students do not read/ consume the media I included. My stude...

In my search fo better ways to teach I have challenged myself to teach this semester without textbooks. In my four classes I use no text...

At AERA I went to a superb session about the impact of e readers on young students engagement, vocabulary and reading success. The results w...

This past week I visited Florida with my kids. One day we chose to go to Young at Art an active arts experience in Davie Fl. It was a gre...

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...

Recently I have been working on home literacy environment and came across the Home Literacy Environment Questionnaire (HLEQ) by Griffin and...

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...