Moving at the Speed of Creativity

Welcome to the initial of a new podcast job interview series I’m titling, “Pedagogy Matters.” This episode, recorded on May well 30, 2022, options the pedagogy of my spouse, Shelly Fryer, which I would summarize as “A Pedagogy of Computational Wondering: Constructionism, Coding, Robotics, Perform, and College student Option.” Shelly started out her journey as a classroom teacher in 1987 following she graduated from the Higher education of Training at Texas Tech College. In addition to educating in many Title 1 elementary educational facilities in Lubbock ISD, Texas, Shelly taught for the U.S. Division of Defense in Germany for 3 several years. Soon after staying property with our little ones for quite a few many years, Shelly served as the Director of PreSchool Ministries at our church in Edmond, Oklahoma, and returned to the classroom in 2013 to instruct 3rd, 4th and 5th grades at Optimistic Tomorrows in Oklahoma City for 4 a long time, which is Oklahoma’s only college solely serving homeless small children and their households. In 2017, Shelly moved to Casady School, wherever she taught for the past 5 a long time, setting up in Language Arts for two a long time and then educating STEM (Science, Engineering, Engineering and Math.) As Shelly shares in the job interview, when she came again to the classroom in 2013, she moved into an iPad 1:1 college student finding out surroundings, and “jumped in with both of those feet” learning to educate with 20-to start with century digital instruments for student engagement, creativity, and assessment. We particularly crucial in on a culminating unit Shelly taught the past pair yrs on biomimicry applying robotics and coding things to do. Also, we check out how Shelly’s knowledge of computational imagining, maker education, the “constructionism” of Seymour Papert, and making use of know-how tools to empower students to “show what they know with media” have grow to be necessary features of her personal pedagogy as a classroom teacher and designer of durable discovering ordeals for students. Check out the demonstrate notes for this episode (480) on speedofcreativity.org for back links to the sources and engineering resources mentioned in this podcast job interview, and for methods to attain out to Shelly with issues and feed-back. Pedagogy issues! Many many thanks to Shelly Fryer (www.shellyfryer.com) for sharing her enthusiasm for teaching, for students, for engaging lessons, and equipping equally lecturers and pupils with the capabilities and tendencies wanted to be successful and thrive in our quickly shifting environment of the twenty-initially century.

Show Notes:

1. Shelly’s internet site: shellyfryer.com
2. Shelly Fryer on Twitter: @sfryer
3. Shelly Fryer on Facebook
4. Lubbock ISD, Texas
5. US Office of Protection Faculties
6. Good Tomorrows Faculty in Oklahoma Town (@ptokc)
7. Shelly’s classroom web-site at PT from 2013-2017 (a Google Internet site)
8. Casady University (Oklahoma Metropolis)
9. Shelly’s classroom site at Casady from 2017-2022 (a Google Web site)
10. Shelly’s web site posts about coding with Scratch and Scratch Jr.
11. Scratch Junior
12. PBS Scratch Junior
13. Scratch (coding platform and finding out local community)
14. Constructionism (mastering idea) – English WikiPedia
15. Jerome Bruner (English WikiPedia)
16. Cuisenaire rods (English WikiPedia)
17. Code.org
18. 20 Factors to Do with a Pc Forward 50: Foreseeable future Visions of Education and learning Motivated by Seymour Papert and Cynthia Solomon’s Seminal Perform by Gary Stager (@garystager)
19. Invent to Find out: Creating, Tinkering, and Engineering in the Classroom by Sylvia Martinez and Gary Stager
20. Seesaw Finding out Journals
21. Electronic Sharing Undertaking (by Wes and Shelly)
22. PBS Scratch Jr Coding Passion Task (June 2016)
23. Jenny Ashby (@jjash)
24. TTS Bee-Bot Programmable and Rechargeable Robotic
25. Playdate OKC Experienced Growth (Sept 2014)
26. Edison Robots
27. TechyKids
28. Environmentally friendly Monitor by DoInk for iOS
29. Podcast409: All My Lesson Plans are in Google Docs! (An Interview with Shelly Fryer – Sept 2013)
30. Podcast 419: An Interview with Shelly Fryer About Student Voice & iPad Assignments (Nov 2014)
31. Podcast423: Secret Skype, Minecraft, iPad Electronic Portfolios, & Additional with Shelly Fryer (May well 2015)
32. Podcast 435: Reflections on Miami Machine 2015 by Shelly and Wesley Fryer (Nov 2015)
33. Podcast 438: Reflections on iCamp KSU 2016 by Shelly and Wesley Fryer (Jan 2016)
34. Podcast 439: Ideal Day of Classroom Running a blog Ever with Shelly Fryer (Jan 2016)
35. Podcast441: iPads in Maker Studio by Shelly Fryer (May well 2016)
36. Podcast442: Classroom Enthusiasm Projects, Maker Studio & Electronic Citizenship with Shelly Fryer (Might 2016)
37. Podcast446: Reflections on a PBS Scratch Jr Coding Camp for Young ones (Sept 2016)
38. Podcast475: Classes Figured out Training All through the Pandemic (Jan 2021)
39. Biomimicry Robots With Edison (Could 2022 site post)
40. Hopscotch for iOS
41. Global University Enjoy Day
42. Wes’ Scratch Animation Device / lesson series
43. Podcast recorded with Voice File Pro for iOS
44. Podcast normalized with Auphonic
45. Shared by way of PodLove Podcast Publisher for WordPress and Amazon S3
46. Strategies to abide by and join with Dr. Wesley Fryer: wesfryer.com/immediately after
47. Shifting at the Speed of Creative imagination Podcast on Apple Podcasts (re-detailed!)
48. Extra Cost-free subscription possibilities for “Moving at the Velocity of Creative imagination Podcasts”

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