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Moving at the Speed of Creativity by Wes Fryer

Category: creativity

  • The Mac Jedi’s Homebrew Mobile Commander

    There are few people alive (or who have ever lived) who combine the passion for education, the digital saavy, and an amazing (and) beautiful geekiness together the way Lance Ford does. Without a doubt, Lance IS the Oklahoma Mac Jedi. I, along with a chorus of others attending the Oklahoma Distance Learning Association (ODLA) spring…

  • NECC 2008 Button Contest: The Learning Revolution

    Scott McLeod has announced an official contest to develop a logo for the phrase, “I’m here for the learning revolution.” Scott’s idea for these buttons in advance of NECC 2008 and this contest was a motivator for my post last week about wanting to write a book with this title. Scott’s center (CASTLE) is paying…

  • If you just want to play games online, don’t get an XO

    Kevin Delaney’s March 31st article for the Wall Street Journal, “What Do Kids Want? For children raised on the Web browser, a new computer proved to be less of a hit than one parent expected” reveals perceptions of computer use which I suspect are sadly common. He wrote: Generally, we limit the [our] kids to…

  • Connecting creativity, programming, and mobile learning

    Gary Stager posted some questions in response to my TechLearning post on Friday, “Mobile web applications.” Gary asked: What do Alice, Storytelling Alice, and Scratch have to do with mobile computing? Why should computer science be relegated to club status? This was my response. Gary: The link I see here is that developers with programming…

  • College students: Win $$$ for developing social networking apps

    My April 1st post “Time to get on the mobile learning train!” was not an April Fool’s joke. A mobile learning revolution is underway, and learners at our colleges and universities are (in many areas) on the leading edge of this change. While many in K-12 schools continue to ban all cell phones and balk…

  • Head faking kids to love programming and change the world

    If Randy Pausch’s final lecture is representative of intellectual and emotional passion to be found on campus, Carnegie Mellon University must be an incredible place to learn. I watched Dr. Pausch’s final lecture, “Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams,” via YouTube on our living room television this evening with my wife thanks to a tweet by…

  • Actively opposing creativity fatigue

    Tom Hemingway, in a tribute post to Arthur C. Clarke titled “Stranger than (science) fiction,” introduced me to a new term this weekend which has me thinking. Tom wrote: Such a creative iron man [Clarke] is both an inspiration and an embarrassment to most of us. I wonder how many of us will keep up…

  • Paying teachers for high student test scores is BAD policy

    The Oklahoma Creativity Project is: A chance to change our state of mind. A way for Oklahomans, and Oklahoma, to say look at me, look what I can create. Forget what you think you know about me. Dust off your dust bowl perception and look at what I’ve done for you lately. I am a…

  • iPhone SDK brings Exchange support and more

    The long awaited software development kit (SDK) for the iPhone was announced today, and it appears a bunch of new software applications are on the near-term horizon for iPhone and iTouch users. According to ARS Technica writer Eric Bangeman, the SDK kit will include full support for Microsoft’s Exchange email and communications platform. That is…

  • Podcast236: Let’s Invent the Future – A Presentation for Oklahoma Superintendents

    This podcast is a recording of a presentation I shared with Oklahoma superintendents on March 5, 2008, in Oklahoma City at an Apple Leadership Institute. If the world is flat for those with connectivity, what are we going to do to change our learning environments in schools to support the development of 21st century skills…