Guy's Edu Blog

It is traditional to create top ten lists at the end of the year. So here is my top ten most watched videos on the Tech EDGE channel on yout...

QuizUp is one of these flash in the pan games that takes the mobile world in a storm. In less than two months it amassed over 5 milli...

I use my iPad excessively, or so I'm told. I can't even claim to be a social user. At the same time I divide my technology use betwe...

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

MOOC Wheel from the Chronicle of Higher Education Graphic by XARISSA HOLDAWAY; illustration by NIGEL HAWTIN I have mixed feelings about...

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...