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Moving at the Speed of Creativity by Wes Fryer

Category: web 2.0

  • Architecting School 2.0

    These are my notes from the excellent hour-long podcast interview Steve Hargadon had with John Seely Brown recently. (I’m listening to the podcast on my iPod shuffle as I wait for my delayed flight to Arkansas.) John stated early in the interview that he is spending more time thinking about structuring the CONTEXTS for learning…

  • John Seely Brown on rethinking schools

    I discovered John Seely Brown and some of his on-target thinking with respect to educational reform in December before Christmas, and am thrilled to see today that Steve Hargadon has just posted a podcast interview with John that looks outstanding. I’ll be adding this to my “to listen” list this week as I travel to…

  • Elevating Creation in Bloom’s Taxonomy in lesson design

    In his post “Is Podcasting the New PowerPointing, Or Will We Finally Teach that the Audience Matters?” Christian Long asks good questions about whether podcasting is following PowerPoint, which followed student posterboard presentations, as the modality de-jure of regurgitating back ideas to a traditional school audience (the teacher) in “projects” which reflect little original thinking:…

  • Podcast117: Engaging Brains with Games and Simulations

    This podcast is a recording of a presentation by Dr. Bernie Dodge at MacWorld 2007 at the K-12 Educators Market Symposium produced by California’s Computer Using Educators Inc. His topic was Engaging Brains with Games and Simulations. The theme of using games to engage students in learning is common to many educational technology conferences, but…

  • OLPC marches on

    Today’s BBC article, “$100 laptop could sell to public” includes some new details about the progress of the OLPC project. One exciting development (which isn’t final but just under consideration) is permitting U.S. sales of the device to raise funds for units provided to students in developing nations. My own kids would love this! (Last…

  • Perspectives on classroom blogging video (final)

    I’ve updated the draft version of the video I originally titled “safe classroom blogging.” The final title is “perspectives on classroom blogging.” Thanks very much to everyone who provided feedback and suggestions. I’ll be showing this video in about two hours in my presentation on “Safe Classroom Blogging” for the MacWorld 2007 K-12 education day…

  • Teen perspectives on DSN

    Sharon Peters has posted an excellent podcast interview with Meg, her 14 year old daughter, that provides good insight into the ways some teens are using digital social networking sites and being safe/smart about the information they share online. Meg agrees with the idea of NEVER sharing your correct age on MySpace. She also is…

  • Digital ethics and citizenship

    One of the more interesting and instructive stories relating to WikiPedia and web 2.0 from last year (early 2006) was the tale of U.S. Congressional staffers eventually caught “virtually vandalizing” the WikiPedia pages of Congressmen from opposing political parties. These actions resulted in a Wikipedia investigation and a WikiPedia publishing ban on certain US Congressional…

  • Podcast107: Be (Constructively) Digitally Disruptive in 2007

    In this first podcast for 2007, I outline seven different reasons educators should consider being constructively, digitally disruptive in 2007. These include 1) Strong reasons for changing our prevalent educational paradigm, 2) Change requires disruption to the status quo, 3) Digital technologies can provide differentated means to engage each learner in the educational process, 4)…

  • Empowering citizen journalists

    In my every-other Friday post for TechLearning last week (“What are you going to do?”) I made a brief reference to the pivotal role citizen journalists play and are likely to play around the globe in the years ahead: The causes of human rights and self-determination, along with many others, have more potential to be…