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Smart Home Outside Christmas Lights (with Google Home)

By Wesley Fryer On January 16, 2023 · Tagged With: automation, christmas, christmaslights, googlehome, IoT, smarthome · Add Comment

Password Manager Tips

By Wesley Fryer On December 25, 2022 · Tagged With: edtech, password, security, tips · Add Comment

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Minecraft, YouTube and Communication Skills

By Wesley Fryer On December 24, 2022 · Tagged With: communication, medialit, minecraft, skills, youtube · Add Comment

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Podcast481: CMC World Student News

By Wesley Fryer On December 22, 2022 · Tagged With: create2learn, media, news, podcast, student, stuvoice · Add Comment

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Mastodon Tips (Dec 2022)

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SIFT on Mastodon

By Wesley Fryer On November 27, 2022 · Tagged With: mastodon, medialit, medialiteracy, twitter · Add Comment

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Favorite Chrome Extensions (Nov 2022)

By Wesley Fryer On November 2, 2022 · Tagged With: browser, chrome, edtech, extensions, google · Add Comment

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Media Dominoes Fall

By Wesley Fryer On October 26, 2022 · Tagged With: anthropology, edtech, inspiration, video, wesch · Add Comment

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Faculty Survey with Dr. Fryer

By Wesley Fryer On October 17, 2022 · Tagged With: interview, teaching · Add Comment

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Share Audio on YouTube

By Wesley Fryer On October 7, 2022 · · Add Comment

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“Dance Off” Lego Robotics Challenge

By Wesley Fryer On October 4, 2022 · · Add Comment

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First HAM Radio Club Meeting

By Wesley Fryer On September 27, 2022 · Tagged With: charlotte, emergency, HAM, prepare, preparedness, prepper, radio · Add Comment

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Tips for Using Jamboard

By Wesley Fryer On September 20, 2022 · Tagged With: edtech, google, jamboard, tips, tutorial · Add Comment

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The Story of Bella Tunno (Narrated Sketchnote)

By Wesley Fryer On September 16, 2022 · Tagged With: advice, business, entrepreneur, sketchnote, sketchnoting, wisdom · Add Comment

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iPad Screen Recording for Narrated Sketchnotes

By Wesley Fryer On September 12, 2022 · Tagged With: ipados, sketchnote · Add Comment

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Reflections on Carnegie Mellon Robotics Academy (Part 1)

By Wesley Fryer On June 29, 2022 · Tagged With: coding, lego, robotics, scratch, stem · Add Comment

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Podcast480: Pedagogy Matters with Shelly Fryer

By Wesley Fryer On June 23, 2022 · Tagged With: MakerEd, pedagogy, school, teacher, teaching · Add Comment

Welcome to the first of a new podcast interview series I'm titling, "Pedagogy Matters." This episode, recorded on May 30, 2022, features the pedagogy of my wife, Shelly Fryer, which I would summarize as "A Pedagogy of Computational Thinking: Constructionism, Coding, Robotics, Play, and Student Choice." Shelly started her journey as a classroom teacher in 1987 after she graduated from the College of Education at Texas Tech University. In addition to teaching in several Title 1 elementary schools in Lubbock ISD, Texas, Shelly taught for the U.S. Department of Defense in Germany for 3 years. After staying home with our children for several years, Shelly served as the Director of PreSchool Ministries at our church in Edmond, Oklahoma, and returned to the classroom in 2013 to teach 3rd, 4th and 5th grades at Positive Tomorrows in Oklahoma City for four years, which is Oklahoma's only school exclusively serving homeless children and their families. In 2017, Shelly moved to Casady School, where she taught for the past five years, starting in Language Arts for two years and then teaching STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math.) As Shelly shares in the interview, when she came back to the classroom in 2013, she moved into an iPad 1:1 student learning environment, and "jumped in with both feet" learning to teach with twenty-first century digital tools for student engagement, creativity, and assessment. We specifically key in on a culminating unit Shelly taught the past couple years on biomimicry using robotics and coding activities. Also, we explore how Shelly's understanding of computational thinking, maker education, the "constructionism" of Seymour Papert, and using technology tools to empower students to "show what they know with media" have become essential elements of her personal pedagogy as a classroom teacher and designer of durable learning experiences for students. Check out the show notes for this episode (480) on speedofcreativity.org for links to the resources and technology tools mentioned in this podcast interview, and for ways to reach out to Shelly with questions and feedback. Pedagogy matters! Many thanks to Shelly Fryer (www.shellyfryer.com) for sharing her passion for teaching, for students, for engaging lessons, and equipping both teachers and students with the skills and dispositions needed to succeed and thrive in our rapidly changing environment of the twenty-first century.

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Media Consumption Boundaries

By Wesley Fryer On May 29, 2022 · Tagged With: controls, filter, media, netflix, parental, strangerthings · Add Comment

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Curated ATLIS 2022 Learning

By Wesley Fryer On May 10, 2022 · Tagged With: atlis, atlis22, atlisignited, conference, edtech, twitter · Add Comment

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Podcast479: Teaching About Conspiracy Theories and Media Literacy

By Wesley Fryer On May 3, 2022 · Tagged With: concw, edtech, medialit, medialiteracy · Add Comment

This podcast features a presentation by Wesley Fryer at the ATLIS (Association of Technology Leaders of Independent Schools) 2022 Conference in Orlando, Florida, on May 3, 2022. The title of the session was, "Teaching About Conspiracy Theories and Media Literacy." The official description was: Conspiracy theories are popular on social media and influence our local as well as national conversations and politics. How we can constructively teach about conspiracy theories and help students develop their media literacy skills to better evaluate information and sources in our digital world? This session will highlight the "Froot Loop Conspiracy Theories" media literacy unit, taught to 6th graders since fall 2020 at Casady School in Oklahoma City. By focusing on the Apollo Moon landings, students learn how to use and apply the "SIFT" web literacy framework (S = Stop, I = Investigate the source, F = Find trusted coverage, T = Trace to the original) analyzing together several online videos. While this unit is designed for middle school students, it an be adapted for other grades / ages / developmental levels. Access the full unit on https://lessons.wesfryer.com/lessons/conspiracy-theories

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Smart Home Outside Christmas Lights (with Google Home)

Password Manager Tips

Minecraft, YouTube and Communication Skills

Podcast481: CMC World Student News

Mastodon Tips (Dec 2022)

SIFT on Mastodon

Favorite Chrome Extensions (Nov 2022)

Media Dominoes Fall

Share Audio on YouTube

“Dance Off” Lego Robotics Challenge

First HAM Radio Club Meeting

Tips for Using Jamboard

The Story of Bella Tunno (Narrated Sketchnote)

iPad Screen Recording for Narrated Sketchnotes

Reflections on Carnegie Mellon Robotics Academy (Part 1)

Podcast480: Pedagogy Matters with Shelly Fryer

Media Consumption Boundaries

Curated ATLIS 2022 Learning

Podcast479: Teaching About Conspiracy Theories and Media Literacy

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