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Moving at the Speed of Creativity by Wes Fryer

Category: disruptive-technology

  • Re-creation

    One of the most thought provoking videos and professional development learning opportunities I’ve had in the past six months was watching and listening to Dr. Lawrence Lessig at Wizards of OS4 in September 2006 (via podcast) share his “Read/Write Culture” keynote address. These are a few notes I took awhile back about some of the…

  • Let’s ask teachers to rethink assessments

    Life is generally lived as an “open note” experience. Schools need to focus on preparing students for life, not just for academic tests conducted under artificial conditions that bear little resemblance to the real world outside academia. In line with this idea, rather than banning iPods, cell phones, laptops, and other types of technologies schools…

  • 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…

  • Podcast147: Copyright, Liability, Cyberbullying and Social Networking

    This podcast features a recording of my spotlight 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 my session was “Copyright, Liability, Cyberbullying and Social Networking.” The conference program description was: Legal issues relating to technology are not…

  • Comments I had missed

    In reviewing my Akismet suspected spam messages this evening I caught several comments that were incorrectly held in my moderation queue– most notable among them were South African educator Kobus van Wyk’s comment to my post “Choosing forgiveness and grace over hate and revenge” about the processes of reconciliation in South Africa including the Khanya…

  • First Skype 3.1 call

    I learned that Skype has an updated 3.1 version for Windows out now, and I like several of the interface and feature updates. The Mac version is still at version 2.6 Beta. For the first time I ran skype from Parallels via WindowsXP on my Macbook, and everything worked great. The new Skype 3.1 version…

  • Free speech on MySpace

    Today’s USA Today article “Court: MySpace postings are free speech” reports on a case involving a February 2006 MySpace post by a student, described as “an expletive-laden entry on MySpace criticizing a school principal.” The Indiana appeals court overruled the lower court’s ruling that the student author’s comments were obscene, supporting the student’s appeal in…

  • Embrace the constructive uses of cell phones in the classroom for learning

    An advertisement for MySpace Mobile was included with my latest bill from Cingular for my cell phone service: MySpace Mobile is a social networking mobile application offering an interactive, user-submitted network of friends, personal profiles, blogs, groups, photos and much more. Access online MySpace accounts, update directly from the phone, and join the network of…

  • OLPC and the IDC test (innovation, differentiation & collaboration)

    This short, 3 minute video from CES about the OLPC (one laptop per child) prototype is amazing! What fun it would be (will be?) to teach a group of students equipped with such a powerful learning device! This video published by the same author details the mesh networking capabilities of the OLPC technology: The following…

  • The boss button

    Live streaming web coverage of some of the 2007 Master’s golf tournament will be available online later this week. I was quite amused to see a “boss button” in the upper right corner of the screen: Clicking the “boss button” fills your screen with an innocuous-looking Excel spreadsheet: