Guy's Edu Blog

 This week I participated in the inaugural FLAIEC conference. It was a delightful opportunity to talk with various researchers at different...

Last week I traveled to CSEdCon 2022. As always Code.Org published  State of CSE 2022  showing that despite the pandemic progress has been m...

 The Art TEAMS project has an exceptional advisory council. This group of professionals includes Diana Cornejo-Sanchez , Megan Elliott , and...

 This week the Art TEAMS teams got together again to start our Fall activities. We had a joyous day reconnecting and discussing the work we ...

  I am about to start my Fall semester. As I plan my interactions with my students, I am challenging myself to examine the practices we used...

 My son (18) has the Meta Quest VR headset. This is the fifth VR variation that I have tried on. Before this we had the PlayStation VR conso...

This weekend I dove into Teacher TikTok. It was fun and, at times, entertaining. I learned two things that are on the teacher's mind: 1...

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...