Guy's Edu Blog

Dr. Laurie Friedrich (newly minted) and I are back to Rousseau elementary coaching teachers in technology integration. This is one of the ...

My two youngest kids have been playing minecraft for quite a long time. For those who are not familiar with minecraft think of a game plat...

The lens I most often use to view motivation is Bandura 's concept of self efficacy . The idea is that we are more likely to succeed w...

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...

Working in China exposes the cultural differences AND the similarities of concerns. Despite all the concerns and challenges our project jus...

This spring I have sent Ji Guo to Chengdu to collaborate with the iPad classroom in a first grade. His report seems to indicate that tea...

At another academic year's end I have much to reflect on so this post is the first of a few that will try to help me think through and...

Storm over Telluride Courtesy of Jay's Thought Stream Blog We had a great panel @NETA14. We asked our panelists to reflect on what s...

I got an email a few days ago announcing the potential for professional development in the areas that I have some expertise in. I actually...

I have been trying out democratic practices in my Teacher Ed class for the past semester with the help of two researchers and my students. ...

Yesterday at the American Educational Research Association meeting I went to a session on the role of social media in our work as scholar ...

So Enjoyed myself immensely at EdCampOmaha. At the same time my brain could not stop thinking about ways we could make it better. These are ...

I just came back from EdCampOmaha and I am still  processing. EdCamp is an unconference without a program, fees or a hierarchy. You just sh...

Warning: this post was written in a moment of professional frustration and fully reflects the way I feel a good part of the time. So, be f...

This post started out as a post about getting large systems to move forward with EdTech and notions of frontier. The more I thought about ...

I am proud of the team that has gotten us here. First and foremost Dan Hartig who stuck with me, learned with me and keeps thinking about n...

In the last couple of weeks I have observed a few classrooms from Kindergarten to middle school using Minecraft  EDU to support  21st cent...

We still teach computers as if we have this one... My son who is a senior is taking a few computer applications classes right now. He ca...

I wanted to write about so many things this week. It was so hard to decide that it stopped me from actually sitting down and committing to...

A new semester is upon me. A colleague mentioned today that we are lucky to restart twice a year. A new life a new opportunity to make it ...

 Papa Celestin’s band Circa 1927 Let me start with full disclosure. I know fairly little about music. In a sense my musical taste is non...

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 ...