Moving at the Speed of Creativity by Wes Fryer

Category: digitaldiscipline

  • MNet Social Safety Resources

    The Media Awareness Network (MNet) is home to one of the world’s most comprehensive collections of media education and Internet literacy resources. The website has a wide variety of free resources for teachers (en)(fr), parents (en)(fr), and students (en)(fr). One of their special initiatives is the Be Web Aware (en)(fr) program, which includes many helpful…

  • Cancel or continue?

    I am in a quandary and wonder what you think I should do. I’ve volunteered to co-teach a 2 part workshop with my wife for adults (mainly targeted at parents) at a local Oklahoma City Church later this month. The title of our workshop is “Internet Safety for Families: The Benefits and Dangers of Social…

  • Seeking the elusive “inbox zero”

    It is quite challenging to return to “normal life” and work after a week-long trip and face email inboxes.Since starting David Allen’s book “Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity” several months ago, I’ve started applying several of his core organizational principles with limited but positive results. Since it is quite hard to change…

  • Podcast190: Implications of the Attention Economy for Schools (Part 3 of 3)

    Partly recorded on the airline flight from Detroit to Tokyo and partly recorded from our hotel in Shanghai for the Learning 2.0 conference, this podcast features four additional implications of our 21st century “attention economy” for teachers and students. This is the last part of a three part podcast series focusing on Michael Goldhaber’s 1997…

  • Podcast187: Implications of the Attention Economy for Schools (Part 2 of 3)

    This podcast is the second of a three part podcast series focusing on a 1997 article published by Michael Goldhaber on “The Attention Economy.” In this episode I explore the first three of six implications I see of the attention economy for schools, teachers, students, and learners of all ages. SHOWNOTES: Michael Goldhaber’s 1997 article,…

  • Understanding stress

    I’m about a fourth of the way through David Allen’s outstanding book “Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity.” I mentioned this book to a friend yesterday with the comment, “This book is going to change my life by helping me really get more organized and efficient with my use of time,” and I…

  • Thoughts on bit literacy and information overload coping strategies

    One of my favorite rhetorical questions to ask during workshops is, “Is anyone here NOT receiving enough email?” I don’t know an adult soul who spends time online (my own children and other kids who don’t yet have email accounts are not counted in that group) who suffers from a LACK of email. Remember “the…

  • Lessons to draw from video game passion?

    Many kids (both the chronologically young and the young at heart) love video games of different varieties and flavors. What lessons can we learn from this common tendency, and what action steps should our thoughtful observations and research provoke? In Atlanta last week for NECC, I read the front page headline article, “Millions of kids…

  • Interview at KSDE 2007

    I was interviewed at the Kansas State Department of Education’s annual conference in April 2007 following my spotlight session on “Copyright, Liability, Cyberbullying and Social Networking.” The video of this interview is now available on the KSDE conference podcast page in both Quicktime movie and MPEG-4 formats. The interview runs 16 minutes and 4 seconds.…

  • Podcast148: Building 21st Century Achievers (Kevin Honeycutt)

    This podcast features a recording of Kevin Honeycutt’s presentation on April 26, 2007, at the Kansas State Department of Education (KSDE) annual conference, “Know the Child, Optimize Learning” in Wichita, Kansas. The title of Kevin’s session was “Building 21st Century Achievers.” The conference program description was: We all teach kids and try to prepare them…