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Moving at the Speed of Creativity by Wes Fryer

Year: 2007

  • Cyberwarfare capacity and partial quotations by journalists

    USA Today’s headline article “Military beefs up Internet arsenal” from Wednesday suggests new offensive capabilities are in development for the U.S. war on terror. While I don’t have any insider information on this, I do know that for some time the mission of the U.S. Air Force has included fighting in cyberspace: The mission of…

  • TeacherTube and Zamzar rather than YouTube

    I don’t have formal survey data to back up this perception, but it seems to me that the vast majority of U.S. public schools now block all access YouTube with network content filters. There are some understandable reasons for that action, I suppose, but overall I think the blocking of YouTube by school districts reflects…

  • Stop Cyberbullying: Move Out Into Mainstream Media

    Andy Carvin has declared March 30th “Stop Cyberbullying Day.” I think Andy is right on target in promoting the view that what we need are MORE conversations. He writes: Perhaps the most constructive response is to talk about it. To get everyone talking about it. We only seem to talk about cyberbullying in education circles…

  • Distance Education and Porgramware: The Benefits of Universal Design for Learning Principles

    These are my notes from a panel discussion by Rich Rice (Texas Tech), Lennie Irvin (San Antonio College), SanJuanita Santoy (Texas State Technical College) and Peter England (Texas A&M) Five models of distance learning: (contexts) – Supplemental – Replacement – Emporium – Fully Online – Buffet Adult learners need to be more in charge of…

  • The Changing Landscape of the Global Digital Divide by Paul Resta

    These are my notes from Dr. Paul Resta’s keynote address at SITE 2007: “The Changing Landscape of the Global Digital Divide: Opportunities and Challenges for Teacher Education.” I’m recording this and will share his address as a later podcast. Dr. Resta received the SITE Lifetime Achievement award prior to this ke This landscape is changing…

  • High Quality Learning: It’s all about Nature (technology) AND Nurture (pedagogy)

    These are my notes from Curtis Bonk’s (Indiana University) keynote at SITE 2007. The handout for this session is available as a PDF. The pace of this preso was so fast there is a lot of content I could not capture. I did record this for a later podcast, which Dr Bonk said would be…

  • Bandwidth blues

    It is apparent to me that many of our hotels in the U.S. are ill prepared to deal with the legions of clients who are now showing up for educational technology conferences with laptops in hand. Back in February, I was shocked to see that the “high speed connection” at my Holiday Inn hotel in…

  • Confronting the Wicked Problems of Teaching with Technology

    These are my notes from the keynote presentation by Matthew J. Koehler and Punya Mishra at SITE 2007. More on their wiki: http://tpck.pbwiki.com/ Our solution is TPCK: Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge What is the big fuss about teaching and technology? – tech is here to stay, and teachers need to deal with it – tech…

  • Changing Schools: A conversation with Roger Schank

    These are my notes from a conversation with Roger Shank after his keynote presentation at SITE 2007. There is no way we are going to get governments to do this. (Roger told story of Engineering design experience with Boeing engineer who had the wrong perspective.) Curriculum for building a 747 in the course of a…

  • Rethinking Teaching: How Online Learning Can and Should Completely Alter Your View of Education

    These are my notes from the keynote “Teaching In the New Era” by Roger Schank (Socratic Arts, USA) at SITE 2007. Read more about him on the WikiPedia article about him and in the multitude of sites that come up from a Google search for his name. I consider myself a fulltime educational revolutionary right…