Guy's Edu Blog

This blog focuses on ways that art, technology, and literacy can interact in all educational settings.

Sunday, August 7, 2016

Ten Ways to Use Pokemon Go in your Classroom this year

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You may or may not be a Pokemon player. Either way as Pokemon Go fever sweeps the world it can serve us well to understand it and find ways ...
Monday, July 18, 2016

The Three (Plus) Collaboration Apps I Use Every Day

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1. Google Drive There is nothing like it! No one has figured out how to enable real-time digital collaboration like Google did. At the co...
Sunday, July 10, 2016

The Power of Gaming- Pokemon Go

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There is an ebb and flow in the attitudes and buzz around gaming in education. This week, with the release of Pokemon Go, I saw, once agai...
Sunday, June 26, 2016

Writing Tech into Grants? You must read this first!

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In the last week, I have been on a panel for a federal grant. I cannot and will not reveal details but I do want to share some advice. In si...
Sunday, June 19, 2016

Are We Ready for Cyborg Ed?

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Knee Replacement Vimeo  I have been recovering from ACL surgery in the last two weeks. As I move (with difficulty) about, many passers-b...
Sunday, June 12, 2016

It's Time to Decide What's Next in Ed

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Stanley Howe  CC License Over the last decade, education has developed a dual personality. One is the high stakes assessment driven cult...
Tuesday, June 7, 2016

Notes from the Field- Technology Literacy and Art- Monique's Story

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Monique and I go back a long time. She is one of my favorite teachers and one of the most thoughtful educators I have had the pleasure to...
Saturday, May 21, 2016

What Girl Volleyball taught Me about EdTech

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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...
Saturday, May 14, 2016

3 Reasons Scaling Up Open Educational Resources Should be the Next Step

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Open Educational Resources (OER) have been with us for over 20 year s. The world wide web revolution made them accessible to anyone with ...
Sunday, May 8, 2016

An Open Letter from a Teacher Educator to EduTech Companies

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I am a teacher educator. I work with pre-service teachers every day. I am also an EdTech expert leading professional development and researc...
Sunday, May 1, 2016

Are Devices Eating your Students Brains?

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Children's Games , 1560,  Pieter Bruegel the Elder Kristen Bailey recently shared this article : Screentime Is Making Kids Moody, C...
Sunday, April 24, 2016

Four Reasons All Teacher Educators need to visit Neligh NE

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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. ...
Saturday, April 9, 2016

Now and Next in Ed

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"Maison tournante aĆ©rienne" by  Albert Robida I spent some time at the Early Childhood Summit this week. It was an excellent...
Saturday, April 2, 2016

There are no Teachers in Trenches

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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...
Sunday, March 27, 2016

What my Ski Accident Made Me Learn about Ed Tech

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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 ...
Thursday, March 17, 2016

Tech EDGE Reflections. The end?

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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...
Sunday, March 6, 2016

Binge Learning?

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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...
Sunday, February 21, 2016

The Digital Writing Gap or Let's all switch to Pencil

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Photo by mpclemens CC The 2012 NAEP look at student achievement composing on computers were published recently (December, 2015). The r...
Saturday, February 13, 2016

Brag away Teachers Brag away- Teachers on Social Media.

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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...
Tuesday, February 9, 2016

EdFuture is Now- Predictions

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By Parry https://www.flickr.com/photos/21585925@N07/ My colleague Al asked me to think about trends in educational technology in the nex...
Saturday, January 30, 2016

How we can get "fully trained" teachers?

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Graduating class of the Lady Stanley Institute for Trained Nurses in Ottawa, Ontario I hopped on to #satchat this morning. The chat was ...
Sunday, January 24, 2016

My Four Favorite Podcasts...

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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...
Saturday, January 2, 2016

My Social Media Vacation

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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...
Tuesday, November 10, 2015

Four ways I Increase Trust in my School

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 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 ...
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