Guy's Edu Blog

On friday Laurie and I presented at the Nebraska State Reading Association annual meeting in Kearney  Nebraska. We were (as we find out) ...

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

Friday I had a conversation with Dave Brooks a colleague and a friend. He is also the person who seems to be two steps ahead of me in his t...

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 lot has been made about the role of gaming in creating lonely and isolated teens and possibly even adults. I think that it is a complex ...

A graduate student left Steven Johnson's Future Perfect in my mail box last week. I am logging my first few reactions and puzzlements...

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...

I recently happened upon this meme on Facebook. The forlorn (yet handsome) man laments that everything he learned in college can be found ...

A district I work with just announced they were ordering sa large number of Dell laptops. One of the key reasons mentioned in the news art...

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...

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...

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...

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

Years ago I remember Sarah and I observed our boys playing when suddenly one of them called 'pause' then proceeded a discussion abou...

My oldest Erez is now 18, for a few years now he has been drawing on the generational divide between us as he makes his point about pop cu...

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...

A few days back I was invited to the Kamishibai  presentations in the Arts and Literacy workshop class. Monique and Nancy led the class wh...

In the last few weeks the videos describing the demise of higher education institutions has been making the rounds on my discussion boards...

Photo from Akhila's Blog I usually focus of the problems of integration teacher quality etc. But at the heart of what we do as educa...

This week I promised my students that I will do as I asked them. Come-up with something I have not done before. True to my promise and to ...

I am spending another summer in our Reading Center . Graduate and undergraduate students are working with a wonderful group of striving read...

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...

I am spending a good portion of my waking hours at the KDS Reading Center this summer. Class starts with introducing iPads. My students las...