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Moving at the Speed of Creativity by Wes Fryer

Category: disruptive-technology

  • Changing expectations of learning

    I listened to the second part of David Warlick’s interview with Holly Jobe as a podcast this morning driving into work. What an inspiring and thought provoking message! Here are a few key takeaways: Our focus as educators and learners should be helping students become LITERATE and actual practitioners, not simply pretenders, of the content…

  • Podcast204: How Can I Create a Podcast? Let Me Count the Ways! by Lance Ford

    This podcast is a recording of a presentation about classroom podcasting shared by Lance Ford on November 6, 2007, at the Oklahoma Distance Learning Association’s annual conference. Lance is the director of technology for Howe Public Schools in southeastern Oklahoma. Students in Howe are producing the weekly video podcast CLE LIve, which stands for Camera,…

  • The outboard brain, memory, transfer and learning

    I’ve read a couple articles recently about memory, the brain, and the fundamental ways our access to information and knowledge has changed which have me thinking. Clive Thompson referred to the idea that “the information/knowledge is in the network” in his September article in Wired magazine titled, “Your Outboard Brain Knows All.” Thompson cited Cory…

  • Podcast203: Empowering and Protecting Tomorrow’s Digital Citizens (with Miguel Guhlin)

    This podcast is a recording of a session I co-presented with Miguel Guhlin at the Southwest TechForum in Austin on November 2, 2007. Whether we’re with them or not, today’s young people are venturing into the virtual world, where they face challenges of the sort we could hardly have dreamed of a few decades ago.…

  • Podcast201: So The World Is Flat. Now What?

    This podcast is a recording of my keynote address at the TechForum Southwest conference sponsored by Technology and Learning on November 2, 2007. Schools need to change to better prepare students for the dynamic challenges and opportunities of the 21st century “flat world” highlighted by Tom Friedman in his book “The World is Flat.” The…

  • Archived Keynote and Co-Presentation with Miguel

    Yesterday’s TechForum in Austin was a lot of fun, not only because there were lots of past as well as new acquaintances to visit with and meet, but also because the event provided my first opportunity to use Ustream.tv. To follow the blog posts and flickr images related to the conference, visit David Warlick’s updated…

  • Key for student laptops is content creation, not entertainment

    Christopher Lawton’s article today in the Wall Street Journal (“The First-Grader’s First PC”) highlights several sub $500 computers designed specifically for children, including some I hadn’t read about previously. The Eee PC, priced at $399 according to Christopher’s article, is marketed for mobility, reliability, ease of use, connectivity, media applications and entertainment. The Eee PC…

  • The Today Show on Twitter and Media Literacy

    I was very interested to learn today that the NBC television program “The Today Show” is not only on Twitter, but also is following me. I’m not going to get a big head over this and think that Al Roker is going to be calling me anytime soon for an interview, but I do think…

  • More thinking about mobile, field recording for podcasts

    My post today for TechLearning is titled “Podcasting power in your hand.” I am still trying to fully comprehend the implications of everyone with access to a phone (a cell phone or land line) having access to a viable podcast recording device. I love the fact that Gabcast stores the number of the phone which…

  • PD Reflection and Reflection on Cell Phones as Classroom Learning Tools

    Following the guidelines of the 2007 K-12 Online Conference professional development committee’s posted rubric, I’ve used Gabcast this afternoon/evening to reflect on Liz Kolb’s wonderful presentation yesterday “Cell Phones as Classroom Learning Tools.” I have created a new blog on Blogger (for free of course) for my professional development reflections, for the K12Online07 conference as…