This is an exceprt from my book Efficacious Educational Technology. It is available under a Creative Commons license. You can find a link to it inder the “Get Gary’s Books” menu above. Educational researchers are almost always in search of interventions that will improve learning. When designing experiments to accomplish this, the changes made are Read More
This is an excerpt from my recent book. You can find it under the “Get Gary’s Books” menu above. The title is Efficacious Educational Technology. This section is from the chapter on theories and educational technololgy. When a theory is parsimonious it is the least complex it can be. An example of increasing parsimony in Read More
This is an excerpt from my recent book, Efficacious Educational Technology: A Guide for School and Technology Leaders. It was published under a Creative Commons license and it can be accessed through this page. 247: Models of Technology-Rich Teaching | RSS.com As an education technology professional, you will collaborate with the teachers and educational leaders Read More
Creating an inclusive learning environment requires more than just welcoming words on the first day of class; it demands that every student, regardless of their abilities or disabilities, can fully engage with course content. Accessibility in education ensures that students with visual, auditory, cognitive, or physical impairments have equal access to information. If you are Read More
This is an excerpt from my book Efficacious Educational Technology which is available under a Creative Commons (CC BY‑NC‑SA 4.0) license. You can find an editable version under the link in “Get Gary’s Books” menu above. This section chapter begins the chapter Concepts of Schools in which I suggest that schools are familiar places for Read More
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