Tag: learning
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Remembering Emergency Remote Learning (April 2020)
Were you teaching during the COVID-19 lock downs in April and May 2020? My wife and I were. This week a colleague asked me to find some photos we took at the time of Shelly teaching her third graders at Casady School online from our house in The Village in Oklahoma City, and I found…
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Remembering TxTIP in Floydada and Post, Texas (2004-05)
Once upon a time in the late 1990s, there was a teacher in Lubbock, Texas, who had a dream. He dreamed that all the students in our schools could have their own personal computers to access information, communicate with others, and complete both assignments and projects required for classes at school. That teacher left the…
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Reflections on Learning from the OU Innovation Hub
This past Wednesday, December 6, 2017, I had an opportunity to participate in a “mini-retreat” with colleagues from Casady School (@casadyschoolokc) at the Innovation Hub at the University of Oklahoma (@ouinnovationhub).This is a group of both faculty and staff, involved in supporting and teaching coding and computer science at different levels at our school. This morning on…
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Podcast457: Inspiring Creativity and Curiosity with Media
This podcast features an almost-complete recording of Dr. Wesley Fryer’s keynote, “Inspiring Creativity and Curiosity with Media,” on November 18, 2017, in Cairo, Egypt at the second annual EduForum Conference. The keynote description was: “As automation and the disruptive march of technology continues into virtually every aspect of our lives, it is vital we cultivate…
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More Minecraft Learning: Enchantments and Desert Temples
Over our last snow day / ice day weekend I setup an older, inherited Mac laptop as a home Minecraft server and resurrected a collaborative survival world Rachel (our 7th grader) and I started a couple of years ago with our younger cousins over the Thanksgiving holidays. My own Minecraft learning curve had flattened out…
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Shelly Fryer on Classroom 2.0 Live – Saturday October 15th
Update: This October 18th post by Shelly includes links to this webinar archive. Please join Shelly Fryer (@sfryer) online next weekend on Saturday, October 15, 2016 at 9:00am Pacific / 10:00am Mountain / 11:00am Central / 12:00pm Eastern on Classroom 2.0 Live! Shelly is the “featured teacher” for October on Classroom 2.0 Live, and will be sharing: how she…
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Tweeted Learning from iPadPalooza 2016
The iPadPalooza 2016 conference in Austin last week was a fantastic learning event, and as I found it in 2014, a bit overwhelming. (But in a very good way, like educational technology conferences are prone to be these days.) I’m now in the habit of sharing my learning at educational conferences via Twitter, so this…
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David Jakes on Learning Spaces (April 2016)
David Jakes (@djakes) is not only one of the kindest people you’ll ever meet, he’s also an amazingly knowledgeable and articulate educator with fantastic insights into the design and redesign of learning spaces. He recently spent two years working with The Third Teacher (@thethirdteacher) helping organizations worldwide design and redesign learning spaces, and he’s continuing work in…
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Podcast425: Reflections on the 2015 Mobile Learning Experience
This podcast is a recorded reflection by Shelly and Wesley Fryer (@sfryer and @wfryer) on the June 2015 Mobile Learning Experience. Mobile Learning (@mobile2015) is a fantastic, annual conference in Tucson, Arizona, organized by the Arizona K-12 Center and Tony Vincent. This podcast also includes an interview with Ryan Read (@Ryan7Read) about his successful Kickstarter campaign…