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Newsletter Sign-Up Newsletter Archives Essential Media Education Blogs I Read Videos for PD Store The Fragility of Democratic Institutions – Memories of Cairo in November 2017 By Wesley Fryer On September 30, 2020 · · Add Comment On November 16, 2017, I had the privilege of dining in my Cairo hotel restaurant with Ahmed Ragheb , a long-time friend of my parents who I first met in 1978 when we lived in Columbus, Mississippi, and my dad was a T-37 squadron commander. Ahmed had an amazing military career in the USAF as [...] Read Full Article → Lesson Cast: Sharing a Class Recording with Minimal Steps By Wesley Fryer On September 29, 2020 · Tagged With: edtech , google , googleEDU · Add Comment This past summer as we prepared for the challenges and uncertainies of the COVID-19 dominated 2020-21 academic school year, our head of school asked me to work on an educational technology challenge. How could our teachers best share face-to-face / in-person lesson recordings with students who either chose or were required to learn at home [...] Read Full Article → The Social Dilemma Documentary and YOUR Social Media Privacy Settings By Wesley Fryer On September 28, 2020 · Tagged With: facebook , google , socialmedia · Add Comment If you have not yet watched the new Netflix documentary, “The Social Dilemma,” stop reading this post now and immediately go watch it. Or at least commit to watching it as soon as you have a spare 94 minutes. There’s a good reason it’s poised to be the first documentary to ever be [...] Read Full Article → YouTube Tips and Tricks (September 2020) By Wesley Fryer On September 25, 2020 · Tagged With: google , googleEDU , youtube · Add Comment A group of teachers interested in Google Educator Certification has started meeting periodically at our school in “Genius Bar Sessions” to dive into different Google products which we use as teachers. This week’s session (yesterday) focused on YouTube. The recorded lesson portion of our meeting is available as a 45 minute video on (where [...] Read Full Article → Tips for Discussing Conspiracy Theories with Students By Wesley Fryer On September 23, 2020 · Tagged With: medialit · Add Comment Conspiracy theories are far more than an amusement today. The Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania this week released a study finding that a “Belief in Conspiracy Theories Is a Barrier to Controlling Spread of COVID-19.” Folks who profess beliefs in different outlier conspiracy theories today are more likely to reject [...] Read Full Article → Reflections on AI, China-U.S. Relations, Education & Innovation By Wesley Fryer On September 22, 2020 · Tagged With: ai , china , creativity , innovation · Add Comment The rapid improvement of artificial intelligence (AI) / machine learning algorithms and systems is one of the most important technological trends to study, discuss, and understand today in 2020. In addition to the adult Sunday School class I’m teaching this year , which is using a book on artificial intelligence as a guiding text [...] Read Full Article → A Return to the Simple Pleasures of Daily Blogging By Wesley Fryer On September 21, 2020 · Tagged With: blog , blogging · Add Comment I miss blogging. Ironically, for the first time in YEARS, I actually have two of my six classes of students I’m teaching this semester blogging again via WriteAbout.com . Most students are still choosing to just publish to our class (“inside sharing” within our walled garden) but some are posting publicly. You’re welcome to Read Full Article → Provide Family Tech Support FREE with Teamviewer By Wesley Fryer On September 20, 2020 · · Add Comment If you are the “go to geek” in your family when it comes to technology support, you should know about Teamviewer . While there are a number of “desktop remote access’ solutions available to provide both desktop screensharing AND desktop remote control, many require a monthly subscription fee or a one time software payment. Read Full Article → Ad Blocking Lessons Learned with Pi Hole, Google (Nest) WiFi and AppleTV By Wesley Fryer On September 19, 2020 · · Add Comment Wouldn’t it be nice if there was a relatively inexpensive and straightforward way to block all the advertisements in YouTube and other apps on the AppleTV? (Besides paying a monthly subscription for YouTube Premium ?!) Wouldn’t it be great if this same method provided advertisement and malware blocking for ALL Internet-connected devices on your home [...] Read Full Article → Twitter Threads as Bear Traps By Wesley Fryer On September 6, 2020 · · Add Comment Living as we do amidst an overwhelming quantity of digital information, each one of us needs to develop better skills for filtering our feeds . We also need to use tools and workflows which help us readily FIND STUFF LATER. We’ve all likely had this experience: Someone shares an interesting website with us, or Read Full Article → Recording and Sharing Your iPad with In-Person and Remote Learning Students By Wesley Fryer On August 18, 2020 · Tagged With: apple , appletv , ipad , ipaded , remotelearning · Add Comment Update 8/24/2020: I’ve created a step-by-step tutorial for these steps, using either Google Meet or Zoom. This is linked from our “Lesson Cast” support page on our school instructional support website. Today is our 3rd day back with students for the 2020-21 academic year, and it’s both good and challenging. Most of our [...] Read Full Article → Media Literacy Conversations About Conspiracies and Culture Wars By Wesley Fryer On July 23, 2020 · Tagged With: media , medialiteracy · Add Comment The past two months I’ve been working on a media literacy project with fellow educator and colleague Brian Turnbaugh ( @wegotwits ) which we have titled, “Conspiracies and Culture Wars.” Tuesday Brian and I shared a 60 minute virtual workshop together about this project and its topics at the Summer Institute on Digital Literacy , [...] Read Full Article → Podcast474: Brainstorming “Fact or Fiction? Apollo Moon Landings” Workshop and Lesson By Wesley Fryer On July 8, 2020 · · Add Comment Our conversations about media literacy, conspiracies, culture wars, and the Apollo Moon landings continue! The current generation of youth has been exposed to more conspiracy theories about the Apollo Moon landings and many other topics than any previous generation. What are we going to do about this as educators and parents? This is a serious media literacy challenge, and the project connected to this audio recording provides some answers to this question. This podcast is a recording of a livestreamed conversation between Brian Turnbaugh (@wegotwits) and Wesley Fryer (@wfryer) on July 6, 2020, discussing a proposed workshop at the virtual version of the Summer Institute on Digital Literacy (digiuri.com) coming to a screen near you July 19-24, 2020. This is the part two of these shared conversations. Please refer to the shownotes of our podcast on speedofcreativity.org for links to part 1 of this conversation, our Google Doc with our developing resources, and more. The proposed title of this workshop and lesson is now something like, "Fact or Fiction? Apollo Moon Landings," although this final title is still up for grabs. Wes has been invited to share a keynote based on these ideas at the upcoming virtual "Mountain Moot" July 16, 2020. (Register FREE to attend on mountainmoot.com) This project continues to be a "work in progres...