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Moving at the Speed of Creativity by Wes Fryer

Category: disruptive-technology

  • Sorry teachers, but the read/write web is not shutting down

    I’ve sensed for some time that some school leaders, who are (in many cases) banning technologies like cell phones and iPods from classrooms, would prefer it if the Internet just went away. Rather than mourn, this group of people would actually celebrate if the spoof news skit “The Internet Has Crashed” was real. According to…

  • Glimpsing the future of television

    This evening our family discussed a movie at the dinner table, and since we ate early, I decided to check if the title was available on Netflix for “instant viewing.” Since we are Netflix subscribers, it doesn’t cost us anything extra to watch videos (about 18 hours per month) streamed live off the website. Lo…

  • Videoconferencing coming cell phones near you

    AT&T’s Video Share technology is a harbinger of technologies rapidly coming to a cell phone near you. According to a June 19, 2007 press release: Ultimately, services such as Video Share will be accessible over any of the three primary screens that customers use most frequently — the wireless device, the PC and the television.…

  • Podcast174: Relevance in the Attention Economy Part 1: Key Ideas

    This podcast is the first in a three part series focusing on Michael Goldhaber’s 1997 article, “The Attention Economy and the Net.” In this first part, which I have subtitled “Key Ideas,” I review some of the major points Goldhaber makes about the era of the attention economy he contends we are entering. The abstract of…

  • Email becoming irrelevant? Not for most teachers!

    For the past two years I’ve used the commercial service Pobox.com. For $20 per year, they provide you with an email address you can share publicly and then redirect to any other email address you choose. I like doing this because it provides another layer of spam protection for my personal email, which is certainly…

  • 50 iPhone emails today

    For some reason my iPhone didn’t want to turn on today, so I had to figure out (by reading some simple directions, it wasn’t hard) how to reset it this evening. (Didn’t have time during the day to mess with it.) Surprise, surprise– 50 new emails! Yikes! My iPhone has started to change my life…

  • Disruptive technologies and learning

    I’ve published some new thoughts on the TechLearning blog today in a post titled, “Scissors and Cell Phones.” Of the outbound links I included in the post, the two I commend most highly to you are Karen Mongomery’s workshop curriculum “Using Mobile Phones to Learn” and the recent NPR story “Cell Phones a New Vehicle…

  • iPhone First Impressions

    Wow. I am amazed, stunned, blown away, and thoroughly pleased after spending the last few hours playing with my new iPhone. 🙂 In addition to making calls, surfing the web, updating twitter, listening to some songs (the built-in speaker sounds great) I watched a Wallace and Gromit short movie (20 min, “A Grand Day Out”)…

  • A happy iPhone user

    I snapped this screenshot during tonight’s skypecast with Devin Henley. Now that’s a happy iPhone user! Technorati Tags: apple, att, iphone, ipod, macintosh

  • Podcast166: iPhone First Impressions from Devin Henley

    This podcast features an interview this evening with my cousin, Devin Henley, who become an enthusiastic iPhone owner at 6:15 pm US central time on June 29, 2007. Devin discusses his initial impressions of the iPhone, gives an overview of its applications and features, and reviews the process of setting up his iPhone and syncing…