Guy's Edu Blog

About two months ago I ordered a Chromebook. It was mostly because many schools around the nation are making this choice including the dis...

This post is an ode to summer teaching. As I do most summers I have a full summer load. Many of the people passing me in the corridors are o...

It's been six months since we came back from China. I have blogged about it right after we came back, but I thought it would be good t...

I just finished a week with a fantastic group of educators. Laurie Friedrich, Alison Preston and I ran our fourth iPads in the Classroom w...

I am working with teachers this week on technology integration. I am seeing a real determination to find productive ways to integrate tech...

Jeff Bernadt presented today and included a segment on creativity. Creativity is not just a message for us as teachers, it is also for our...

Last week five graduate students and I traveled to Beatrice, NE to participate in the ESU5 Tech Fair .  It was a very successful day and w...

I think that most early childhood experts in the last few years have been both amazed and annoyed at the "discovery" of the impo...

Amateur is a word used often as a derogatory term. The professional mutters "amateur!" I would like to suggest that schools need...

We have recently finished a parent survey in rural Nebraska about digital technology use. A few things became clear (though not really sur...

The news from LAUSD (see here ) who is suing Apple and Pearson has made the news and is probably hurting the chances of a large district b...

By Real Change [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons After two negative posts I vowed to write a positive one. This week it's eas...

At NETA  I met many great teachers all interested in finding new ways to integrate technology into their instruction. It was great seeing so...

I see this in many districts I work with. As new devices are brought in, someone has the "talk". Do not break them, if you take ...

This week I met with a colleague from our school district. We had a lovely working lunch/coffee sharing ideas and current projects. I descri...

The standrd movement and the Common Core that emerged from it have been with us for so long that we only ask what standards and not whether ...

A few weeks back I had a chance to hear Dr. Twila Liggett discuss her work in the development of Reading Rainbow . In a wonderful w...

I was traveling with my kids this weekend across two states and the majestic views of the plains and the west. If measured correctly at the ...

Today is Read across America day . This morning I watched my son Oren (11) read right after he got up. He is rereading for the ??th time the...

Last week I had the chance to speak at the E N Thompson Forum as a warm up act for the inspiring Milton Chen. I decided to talk about what c...

Here in the US we often talk about High Stakes tests and their impact for example the work by Berliner and colleagues. In China the conver...

I was playing a quiet game of Candy Crush yesterday and my 8 (soon to be 9) year old son Itai came and sat next to me. For me, casual games...

Photo Op in a First Grade Classroom Linzi, Shandong, China We came back from our China Tour two weeks ago. It was a whirlwind tour focus...

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 ...