Guy's Edu Blog

Lately Laurie Friedrich and I have been spending time thinking about preparing teachers to thrive in innovative schools. We spent a signifi...

I just finished a week with a fantastic group of educators. Laurie Friedrich, Alison Preston and I ran our fourth iPads in the Classroom w...

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 ...

By now Bo Pelini and his rants are public knowledge. The thing that struck me the most about his complaints was the idea that he did not kno...

This week we held our annual iPads in the Classroom workshop. Laurie and I used last year's work as a foundation but added many new co...

We just finished with our second professional development with educators in China. This time it was an elementary school that would like to ...

Ji Guo is a new graduate student in our program. With his help I have been able to expand our work on professional development in technolo...

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...

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

I am attaching empirical results about the impact of games on learning. This is where empirical evidence trumps "common sense" it...

I have just finished an intense week working with educators on iPad integration into the classroom at UNL. We had participants from across t...

 I come back to Reading Center every summer with anticipation. It is a great place to try out new ideas and examine change in teachers and...

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 we had a Technology conference on campus. The keynote speaker was talking about MOOC S (Massive Open Online Courses). I don'...

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

The last two weeks have felt like the perpetual motion of a YoYo. After presenting at the state conference - a high note, we came back 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...

As I sift through hundreds of apps for our iPad in the classroom podcast I am occasionally surprised by quality apps. In our TechEDGE ...

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