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Moving at the Speed of Creativity by Wes Fryer

Category: globalvoices

  • Rise up with Uth TV

    Students today need not wait for their school, teachers, or community leaders to recognize the power of digital storytelling and become globally acknowledged filmmakers. The percentage of older adults in my community aware of YouTube seems to be growing but is still quite limited. More youth as well as older learners need to know about…

  • Oil, Corruption, Development, Violence and Hope

    I have just finished reading an eye-opening and extremely depressing article in National Geographic’s February 2007 issue, “Curse of the Black Gold: Hope and Betrayal in the Niger Delta.” Generally I don’t have a problem choosing some words to start with when composing a blog post, but I am actually not sure where to begin…

  • Opposing ethnocentrism in schools and society

    Sunday’s Dallas Morning News carried the article “FB schools have different view of immigrants,” relating the story of the Carrollton-Farmers Branch school district that continues to focus on educating its diverse student population despite political shenanigans by local politicians over immigration issues. According to the article: The Farmers Branch City Council declared English the official…

  • Picturing Population and Global Citizenship

    Worldmapper has published a useful and thought-provoking world map scaled to show relative population sizes: Consider the following quotation (included with this map) from Hania Zlotnik in 2005: Out of every 100 persons added to the population in the coming decade, 97 will live in developing countries. Helping students become more globally aware should be…

  • Podcast116: Safe Classroom Blogging to Improve Student Writing

    This podcast is a recording of my presentation at MacWorld 2007 at the K-12 Educators Market Symposium produced by California’s Computer Using Educators Inc. My topic was Safe Classroom Blogging to Improve Student Writing. The 6.5 minute video I shared at the start of the presentation is shared under a Creative Commons license and available…

  • OLPC stakes

    I’ve posted some new thoughts over at TechLearning in a post titled, “OLPC: Far more at stake than technology.” Technorati Tags: education, educationreform, olpc, negroponte, schoolreform

  • Podcast110: Simple Podcasting on a Global Scale

    This podcast is a recording Carol Anne McGuire’s presentation at the MacWorld 2007 K-12 Educators Market Symposium on January 10, 2007. Carol Anne is an Apple Distinguished Educator and the coordinator of the Rock Our World project, online at www.rockourworld.org. Rock Our World is an exciting International Project, involving countries on ALL SEVEN continents. Kids…

  • 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…

  • 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…