Guy's Edu Blog

Our spaces our filling with voice assistants, Google, Apple, and Amazon all have created an interface that allows users including young lear...

 Our two weeks of intensive summer work have ended. It is early to talk about results but I can reflect on what I have learned. In the past ...

  This week we finally started our Art TEAMS grant with teachers. The project is  developing self-driven creative learners who connect disc...

 I found out about the massacre on a flight to the RESPECt conference in Philadelphia, the city of brotherly love. What is the point of disc...

  The argument against teaching computer science to all came this week from some of our rural schools. They point out, and rightfully so, th...

This post is a result of a series of conversations I recently had with a number of people vis-a-vis more recent developments in curriculum d...

 For the past three weeks, I have been to three conferences. SITE , the Society for Information Technology in Teacher Education, in San Dieg...

 This weekend I went to Fargo, North Dakota for an athletic event. Navigating a new city is always a challenge, and I started by activating ...

  I have always thought digital creation as a potential shortcut to help creators leapfrog traditional barriers created by skill. The core i...

This reflection is in no way an attempt to define or argue the boundaries of cultural appropriation. Instead, I am attempting to think about...

 I am continuing my journaling journey. This week I started thinking about my learning for the week while cleaning the windows in my living ...

The National Art Education Association meeting was in New York City this spring. Despite many years of being involved in arts integration, I...

A recent article in Wired  revisited how attitudes toward Wikipedia come face to face with the reality of Wikipedia. It is the world'...

Freddy Hiebert currently of TextProject , Emily Hayden of Iowa State and I recently published an empirical paper about patterns of silent ...

Occasionally I browse the books available on audio from the library through my app and listen to an almost random pick. This is how I came b...

In the last few years, I picked a habit. At the beginning it was innocent. I listened to a podcast or two. I picked up Duncan's Histo...

I have been away from the blog. It was an opportunity to explore other skills and ways of acting in the world. I am ready to integrate my ne...

Lately Laurie Friedrich and I have been spending time thinking about preparing teachers to thrive in innovative schools. We spent a signifi...

I am an avid podcast listener. I listen to fiction podcasts such as Fictional , the Moth . I listen to a whole host of non-fiction podcast...

I have two new devices in my life. The first is my iWatch bought last weekend in LA and the second is my Ford C-Max hybrid. I love both de...

I have a large digital footprint with hundreds of blog posts and video series with over 100,000 views. In addition I put everything I publ...

My last day in South Africa I had lunch with faculty from the University of KwaZulu-Natal in Durban. I had an enlightening conversation wi...

Yesterday we visited the Langa township  and took a walking tour. One of the things that struck me as we walked around was the ingenuity o...

In the las two days Jennifer Davidson and I have been discussing needs vs. wants. Which led me to ask myself a few questions. The first is ...

I am in South Africa with a vibrant group of educators. It is my second visit to South Africa. We are on the dawn of our second day in Cape ...

It has been almost a year since I blogged last. I took much needed time away from blogging to think, rethink and pursue other duties in ad...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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