Guy's Edu Blog

My dean directed me toward an opinion article in the prestigious New York Times by Susan Pinker . The title was "can students have too ...

Today we had our 13th TechEDGE conference. We spent the whole day with brave teachers in Aurora Public Schools who are integrating technolog...

A quick look at our most popular videos for 2014 shows that the topics of Apps for English learners is consistently at the top of the list ...

By now Bo Pelini and his rants are public knowledge. The thing that struck me the most about his complaints was the idea that he did not kno...

I caved in and got an Apple TV. I spent a few minutes setting it up and enjoyed the way all my work looked on the large screen. And then I...

A few weeks ago I shared my journey into educational research and technology with first year doctoral students. I was invited by Ali Moell...

By User:Sargoth (Own work) [Public domain] It is impossible to avoid thinking about Ferguson these days. But I approach the topic with...

Ann Donovan WNBA Coach- LA Storm Coaches are key. This is definitely true in professional sports. Despite the fact that everyone playing...

Robert Calfee 1933-2014 Bob died last night. Bob was my mentor, the kind that sticks in your head long after you moved out of state. I r...

A district I work with has been focusing on literacy especially reading in the last few years. In multiple ways the district keeps redefin...

Some people always call for back to basics. Decoding memorizing facts and old technologies (for example cursive writing). As the day No Ch...

  by    Andrew Beeston   We had the  TechEDGE 12  conference on campus two weeks ago. Rick Marlatt presented about Minecraft . He was e...

Last week I went with my kids to their school's "fun night". The fun centers around a fair like set of activities that gener...

This week I visited a new 1:1 integration at a local school site with some of my colleagues. The site chose a "convertible" lapt...

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 ...