Guy's Edu Blog

Sometimes I need to remind myself that technology integration does not mean just using a movie or a device as a replacement. It does n...

Last week I participated in the first phase of Reading/ Language Arts standards writing organized by the Nebraska department of education...

I believe we stand at the dawn of a great change in education. Technology is forcing schools to change as it does society at large. The di...

I admit it. I have been waffling. I have been championing iPad use but have actually been using a combination of iPhone iPad and laptop. Two...

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...

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...

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...

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...

This is an odd post because Democratic education is not a topic I usually address in my blog. Well, at least not directly and intentionall...

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...

The Bridge is a new FX TV show that I picked up on demand recently. The topic of a thriller around the border crossing between the US an...

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 have recently joined the Netflix throngs. As its use spread throughout our devices  I observed my kids and I binging on a specific show...

 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...

Last Tuesday we had our summer Tech EDGE conference. It was a great day with excellent presentations, great conversation and participatio...

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...