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Moving at the Speed of Creativity by Wes Fryer

Category: disruptive-technology

  • Prospects of infinite bandwidth

    I borrowed a copy of George Gilder’s book “TELECOSM: How Infinite Bandwidth will Revolutionize Our World” today, and the following paragraph really captured my imagination and attention on page 4: The ability to communicate– readily, at great distances, in robes of light– is so crucial and coveted that in the Bible it is embodied only…

  • Tor, Anonymity and IT department tracking

    Lots of VERY interesting stories in the last couple of days at the COSN/Texas CTO Council conference in Dallas, Texas, regarding situations where IT departments are catching school employees as well as students going inappropriate places on school networks using tools like Lightspeed and others. Tonight, I learned about (via Miguel) a new software program…

  • Banning student athlete use of DSN sites

    Here’s a new way to approach digital social networking (DSN), but in higher education contexts– threaten student athletes with revocation of their scholarships if they don’t delete their online profiles on DSN websites and stop using these sites altogether. That’s what is happening at Kent State apparently. Normally we read about K-12 school districts banning…

  • $100 laptops, student media creation, and “second generation standards”

    I had a conversation with Dr. Chris Dede today following his COSN keynote, and asked several questions. The first concerned the $100 laptop project. He is doubtful that the project can deliver laptop power at that price point. For this reason he is focusing on handheld mobile devices, since they are already close to ubiquitous,…

  • Podcast63: Guidelines for Educational Revolutionaries (1-7)

    This podcast is the second in a series focusing on Guidelines for Educational Revolutionaries. In this podcast I explore the first seven guidelines. As always, listener responses and feedback are welcome as comments to this post! 🙂 Program Length: 32 min, 14 sec File size: 7.3 MB (Click here to listen to this podcast) Show…

  • Guidelines for Educational Revolutionaries

    I am in the middle of a multi-part podcast series I have titled, “Guidelines for Educational Revolutionaries.” This is not an educational policy discussion: These are specific suggestions for classroom teachers, campus principals, district administrators, school board members, parents, and anyone else interested in constructively championing the cause of educational reform in the early 21st…

  • Teens online: It’s OK!

    I sometimes feel I am an edublogosphere intelligence agent, fortunate to often be slipped new bits of “intel” from others “in the know” that I’m able to pass along. Rather than write these up in a classified “eyes only” report for higher ups, however, I’m able to share these with the world via this blog!…

  • EdTechTalk podcast with Miguel, Jeff and Dave

    I was honored to be included in EdTechTalk #49 last night with Miguel Guhlin and hosts Jeff and Dave. I also consider myself very lucky to have been able to connect via skype for this dialog at all! I was driving from Lubbock, Texas down to Bryan / College Station, Texas (about an 8 hour…

  • $100 laptop prototype demo

    The creative, dynamical future marches on, despite frequent attempts by statist conservatives to halt history and block the Internet from influencing our children in schools. The following video is less than 5 minutes, and shows the first working prototype of the $100 laptop being developed by the MIT Media Lab and many commercial partners. This…

  • Blocking social networking sites is an insufficient response

    I was quoted in a Dallas Morning News article yesterday titled, “Teen gangs find voice on Web.” The article highlights how students in gangs (and some possibly wanting to be in gangs) are using social networking spaces like Bebo and MySpace to express themselves, communicate with others, and share their voices with the world. (I…