Guy's Edu Blog

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'...

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...

I am on my way to the American Educational Research Association meeting in San Francisco. This is one area that even the best of current tec...

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

I am writing this post as a response to a blog post by Dr Bernard Bull on Five Common Reasons for the Importance of Letter Grade . I am not ...

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...

I have three iPads, a laptop (or two) a smart phone and an e-reader. When I work at home I have 2-4 devices open. The evidence has been ...

This week I was invited to participate in a state panel examining which test Nebraska should use as one of the criteria for certification....

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...

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...