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Moving at the Speed of Creativity by Wes Fryer

Category: disruptive-technology

  • Just say no to fear

    In her recent post “MySpace and Abstinence,” Stephanie Sandifer from Houston draws parallels between schools not teaching kids about safe sex in the hope it will encourage them to not engage in sex at all, and banning social networking sites like MySpace in the hope students won’t use them. Her point on rejecting fear is…

  • Podcast56: Marco Torres on Engaging Students Through Digital Media

    Marco Torres is an internationally renowned speaker, filmmaker, and author of a wide variety of digital content. He is also a high school social studies teacher in San Fernando, California, which is in Los Angeles county. Marco was named the California Teacher of Year last year, and serves on the board of the George Lucas…

  • Professors banning laptops

    Hot of the presses of MSN today: “More professors ban laptops in class: Attempt to end computer distractions; rekindle discussion.” From the article: PHILADELPHIA – As the professor lectured on the law, the student wore a poker face. But that was probably because, under the guise of taking notes on his laptop, the student actually…

  • Learning, Offshoring, Feedback, Disruptive Process Innovation

    I listened to a fantastic podcast by John Seely Brown from 22 June 2005 at Supernova 2005 this evening. This is linked by ITConversations, a superb source for innovative ideas and great podcasts. JSB’s presentation, which runs about 30 minutes long, is one of the best I have ever heard on offshoring, emerging economic processes,…

  • Cool SMS tricks

    I am not a big user of SMS, but have used it a few times in the past few months to good effect. According to WikiPedia: Short Message Service (SMS) is a service available on most digital mobile phones that permits the sending of short messages (also known as text messages, or more colloquially SMSes,…

  • Reactionary, statist school leaders ban iPods

    Anderson County (Tennesee) Public Schools have recently banned iPods on all school campuses and even on school buses. According to an article from April 13th from a Knoxville TV station: Supporters of the resolution, which passed unanimously, say students walking down school halls with headphones on are a distraction and that students need to be…

  • F2F conversations and dialog as the answer

    Andy Carvin wrote a thoughtful post today on the Digital Divide Network about the recent controversies over blogs (and all webpages) being censored by some school district Internet filters if they use/mention the word “MySpace.” Andy cites my post “Censored for Relevance,” which I also made available as a podcast over the weekend. In his…

  • Choosing Writing Efficiency and Standardization

    The March 10, 2006 issue of the Chronicle of Higher Education had a prominent headline: “The Grading Factory: Texas Tech has revolutionized how English-composition papers get marked, but is its approach too much like an assembly line?” The article, “A New Way to Grade,” is unfortunately only web-accessible to subscribers of The Chronicle. It raised…

  • Avoiding risk and discouraging creativity

    In his post “How to Kill Creativity” (in his blog “Slow Leadership”) Carmine Coyote shares the following graphic: Carmine is talking about business contexts in his post, but can’t we see ourselves in this graph in education– especially if we think of the NCLB defined “bottom line” as student test scores? The “creative ones” seem…

  • Chat lingo

    Cox Communications has published a thorough and excellent list of “lingo” (abbreviations) often used by young IMers. (young folks using instant messaging) It is available as a PDF File. The following are all acronyms parents should be aware of: P911 – my parents are coming! PA – parent alert PAL – parents are listening PANB…