Gary’s Blog

This is an excerpt from my book: Efficacious Educational Technology: A Guide for School and Technology Leaders. It is available under a Creative Commons license (CC BY‑NC‑SA 4.0). You can find digital versions of it on my page entitled Efficacious Educational Technology and you can get a printed copy on the Lulu bookstore. It is Read More

When I was an undergraduate student, my major was science education. Specifically, I wanted to be a biology teacher; within biology, I was primarily interested in zoology. I took a botany course to meet distraction requirements, and immediately enjoyed the smaller class (most of the courses like cel biology and animal physiology were filled with Read More

Here is yet another post from 20 years ago. I originally wrote this an article to go into a newsletter written for middle school educators, but it was never published. The human brain is the focus of education. If our students are to have the ability to use the lessons we teach as they solve Read More

Here is another bit of discovered writing in my “clean out the files on the thumb drive” project. I orginally worte in 2010. Little did I know how much worse things would get in the interveneing years. Charles Dickens begins his famous novel set during the French Revolution with what may be best opening lines Read More

A common complain among students in teacher education programs is that that coursework focuses too much attention on theory. As an undergraduate student seeking a career in science education, I was fond of saying “I don’t care about all of this, I just want to know how to teach.” Well, it wasn’t until I got Read More

With the beginning of another school year, we get another flurry of “how was your summer” questions. I have told people it was a “summer of adapting” for me. There were some circumstances I expected were going to occur, they did, and now I have been adapting. The responses from people to my “summer of Read More