Moving at the Speed of Creativity by Wes Fryer

Category: digitaldiscipline

  • Social networking sites (SNS), Convivial Technologies and Digital Discipline

    On June 16, 2011, the PEW Internet & American Life Project published a new report titled “Social networking sites and our lives.” According to PEW, this represents the “first national survey of how the use of social networking sites (SNS) by adults is related to people’s overall social networks.” Some of the study’s significant findings…

  • Emotional Intelligence by Phyllis Van Hemert

    These are my notes from Phyllis Van Hemert’s presentation about “Emotional Intelligence” on 6 Oct 2010 at the “Family Matters” class at 1st Presbyterian Church in Edmond, Oklahoma. Phyllis was the counselor at our kids’ elementary school in Edmond and is now a family and kids counselor in private practice. Recommended Reading: The Optimistic Child…

  • Digital boundaries are few and far between in Technopoly

    This morning on The Today Show, hosts interviewed a San Diego family which was challenged to give up cell phones, computers and TV for an entire day. In addition, Tony Schwartz (author of “The Way We’re Working Isn’t Working: The Four Forgotten Needs That Energize Great Performance” addressed the need we have to take proactive…

  • Beatings, Electric Shock and Death for Internet Addicted Chinese Youth

    Christopher Stewart’s article, “The Lost Boy” in the February 2010 issue of Wired magazine (not yet available online, apparently) relates horrifying tales of abuse in Chinese “Internet Addiction Camps” for youth. Since 2002 when state-run newspapers started sharing stories about the dangers of Internet addiction, thousands of worried Chinese parents have sent their allegedly Internet-addicted…

  • Easy iPhone Panoramic photos with Pano

    Last night I had the great pleasure of hanging out with some innovative teacher leaders in Maine in a spectacular spot on a “pond” in the southern part of the state. Coming from the midwest, I would have called this a “lake,” but I was told in Maine (when you have 40 x 10 mile…

  • Branding, Advertising, and the Attention Economy

    I’m following the lead of my wife and son this past summer, who both read 4+ eBooks on their iPhone / iTouch devices using the free Kindle for iPhone app. This week I started reading Naomi Klein’s book “No Logo: No Space, No Choice, No Jobs” in eBook form. According to WikiPedia’s entry, Klein: ……

  • Discussing GirlsGoGames.com – A conversation about values and media literacy

    My 8 year old daughter recently googled something like “cool games for girls” and came across the website GirlsGoGames.com. We had a discussion this morning about the site and this is something we need to talk about more at length, because of all the issues it raises. I asked Sarah to blog about this, but…

  • Hyperconnectivity and Convergence are coming: Our schools need to embrace digital media NOW

    Telecommunications convergence is a topic with which I’ve grown increasingly familiar over the past few years, and I address frequently in blog posts, workshops, and conference keynote presentations. Convergence has BIG implications for learning. As digital devices become increasingly ubiquitous, people of all ages will have opportunities to access digital content (including video) in more…

  • Thoughtfully considering the implications of multiple screens in our lives

    This fall I’ve shared the Nokia advertisement “The 4th Screen” several times at educational conference presentations and with an adult class on digital technologies (mostly iTunes University) I taught at my church to discuss the implications of telecommunications convergence. These are some of the brainstormed responses audience members, adult students, and presentation participants have shared…

  • Saturday morning in a 1 to 1 household

    Remember watching Saturday morning cartoons as a kid? A discussion about cartoon favorites is probably a good way to date myself, for better or for worse. Your cartoon memories may be quite different from mine. Some of my most beloved cartoons growing up were Speed Buggy, Thundarr the Barbarian, Space Ghost, Scooby Doo, Felix the…