Moving at the Speed of Creativity by Wes Fryer

Tag: stem

  • Glimpsing the Future with Alec Ross

    The World Affairs Council podcast (@world_affairs) is one of my current favorites. As a fan of political science, history, international relations, global geo-politics as well as science and technology trends, it’s a home run for me. The guests they have on their programs are top notch. Like TEDtalks, it’s amazing we can access such high…

  • Mission to Mars STEM Camp for Teachers: June 6-9, 2016

    You’re invited to join Amy Loeffelholz (@AmyLoeffelholz), Shelly Fryer (@sfryer) and I this summer for our third STEMseeds PD Camp for teachers. This year we’re offering a 4 day, hands-on STEM experience, and calling the workshop “Mission to Mars STEM Camp for Teachers.” Our audience is all K-12 classroom teachers as well as STEM teachers. The…

  • Presentations on Creativity, 3D Printing, Digital Sharing and More

    Friday I had an opportunity to attend and present at the OMLEA Conference for Middle Level educators and administrators, sponsored by CCOSA and held a the Renaissance Hotel in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The best part of the day was having the chance to co-present with two of the teachers from my school, Casady School in Oklahoma…

  • MakerSpace Resources & Ideas for Digital Music Creation

    I received an email recently from a teacher asking about resources to use in a school MakerSpace to integrate music and digital musical creation. This is what I suggested. If you have other thoughts, resources or links, please share them as a comment or a reply to @wfryer on Twitter! Here are some resources for…

  • We Need More Curious Dreamers, Tinkerers and Makers

    Thank goodness Orville and Wilbur Wright were not lawyers or accountants! I love what Dr. Paul Czysz said in these 35 seconds of an intriguing 38 minute video interview: …all it takes is a dreamer. Can you imagine the Wright Brothers if one was a lawyer and one was an accountant? Why are you going to…

  • Best Free iPad Apps for Stopmotion Movies

    Two of my teachers have emailed me today for Stopmotion video iPad app suggestions. Here’s what I sent them. If you have alternative suggestions please let me know with a comment or Twitter reply to @wfryer. Here are 2 StopMotion apps which are free and work well: Stop Motion Cafe: (this is the one my…

  • Inspired by Ashley Vance’s Biography of Elon Musk

    Elon Musk (@elonmusk) is not only an inspiring and fascinating person, he’s also one of the most important entrepreneurs of our times who is combining technology with hard work and engineering smarts to solve some extremely challenging problems we face as a human race. Today I finished listening to the biography of Elon Musk by Ashlee Vance (@valleyhack)…

  • Changing Mindsets: STEM Is NOT Content Areas in Isolation

    As this fall semester has started, I’ve heard several stories about STEM classes and STEM teachers in other schools that have troubled me deeply. Some paraphrased quotations from new, full-time STEM teachers, have included: I’m going to teach some math lessons, and then we are going to do some hands-on science experiments. Later in the semester we…

  • Podcast427: Battlecode Coding Competition at MIT with Jonah Casebeer

    This podcast features an interview with Jonah Casebeer, a 17 year old family friend and rising senior at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology (TJ) in Alexandria, Virginia. Jonah and three of his classmates entered the annual “Battlecode” Artificial Intelligence Programming Competition at MIT along with about 400 other teams in the fall of 2014. Their…

  • Ordering Supplies for STEMseeds Camp: Jitterbug Robots

    In two weeks, Amy Loeffelholz and I will be leading a 3 day workshop for elementary STEM teachers in Yukon, Oklahoma, which we’ve named “STEMseeds PD Camp.” (It’s June 2-4, 2015.) One of the planned STEM projects we’re going to do is “Jitterbug Robots,” a lesson my wife (Shelly Fryer) learned to do and enjoyed last…