Gary’s Blog

Fifteen years ago, I was teaching high school courses. I used to give my students “how to write essay questions” advice when they were preparing for exams. Near the end of one seasons, a senior asked me, “How come no one ever told us this?” As a result, I created this file. I wonder if Read More

203: An #edtech Problem No One Talks About This is an excerpt from a chapter I wrote a few years ago (this is not the version that went into the version). It contains what I believe is a problem preventing much progress in using educational technology effectively. The TL;DR version: School leaders are reluctant to Read More

I have been cleaning out old digital files. Here is an interesting piece I found:

This is another post that I wrote after reading old papers written when I was a graduate student… this one from 1999. Our goal for students is typically understanding; we don’t want our students to simply recall, we hope to see in them knowledge of facts and comprehension on concepts. But maybe we don’t. Actually, Read More

Almost all management and leadership teams focus on their work by establishing goals. It is reasoned that decisions and actions in the organization must be directed towards the desired state described by the goals. Just like in all organizations, goals and the actions undertaken to achieve them do exist on several levels. It is important to examine the nature of the Read More

During one week when I was managing IT for a small rural school, I encountered two examples of how educators do not understand the nature of enterprise systems. On Monday, a teacher brought me a sale paper for a local box store retailer (it was early in the holiday gift buying season). She told me she had $300 Read More