Guy's Edu Blog

I am visiting my mother in Israel for a few days. Sitting around the table were some family and friends that came to say hi. My aunt was tel...

Open Educational Resources (OER) have been with us for over 20 year s. The world wide web revolution made them accessible to anyone with ...

I am a teacher educator. I work with pre-service teachers every day. I am also an EdTech expert leading professional development and researc...

Children's Games , 1560,  Pieter Bruegel the Elder Kristen Bailey recently shared this article : Screentime Is Making Kids Moody, C...

Last week I traveled to Neligh NE to work with a group of early childhhod educators. It was a long drive made longer by road construction. ...

"Maison tournante aérienne" by  Albert Robida I spent some time at the Early Childhood Summit this week. It was an excellent...

World War I Trenches I often see and hear about lessons from the trenches. This metaphor is used in education as much as any other field...

It is the last day of spring break, and I hobble around on crutches. Our family travelled to our favorite spring skiing spot in Park City ...

Laurie Friedrich and I have been doing Tech EDGE for 6 years. We have just finished our 16th! conference. Each conference has served on ave...

Binge had a negative connotation for a long time. We discussed binge drinking and worried about the impact on our systems.We have this sen...

Photo by mpclemens CC The 2012 NAEP look at student achievement composing on computers were published recently (December, 2015). The r...

Last week I read a #Rant through Ian O'Byrne's excellent feed on Google Plus. In the rant the author complained about teachers on...

By Parry https://www.flickr.com/photos/21585925@N07/ My colleague Al asked me to think about trends in educational technology in the nex...

Graduating class of the Lady Stanley Institute for Trained Nurses in Ottawa, Ontario I hopped on to #satchat this morning. The chat was ...

https://www.flickr.com/photos/29205886@N08/ Lately, I have been on a podcast binge. Since being adopted by our dog Yuki, I suddenly have...

I have been on a social media vacation for the past month. I have not blogged or participated in many of the regular social media activiti...

 Trust No One Arm Tattoo | by Lynn Friedman I scoured the internet for a photo denoting trust. I found the expected images of people in ...

 Monday morning, I was making breakfast when my son asked: "Dad can I read?". "Sure?" I answered quizzically. "No...

The NAEP results came out this week. They did no show much improvement in closing the gaps. In fact, there is now growing public discussio...

Can you imagine this headline? Who would go to a dentist that claimed that it has worked in the past, so there is no need to change? Two...

Tech EDGE Parent Meeting in China Jan 2015 When we started using iPads in the Reading Center, we added a session about technology to our...

(Almost) Thirty years ago I jumped out of an airplane. It was after about a week of practice, and I knew I wasn't ready. Our guide dis...

© Copyright  wfmillar Toward the end of class on Tuesday, one of my students asked: "we have only one grade on the grade book, is t...

A story by Natasha Singer in the New York Times on Sept. 5th focused on the Teachers pay Teachers website. It is not surprising that a bus...