I chose to do Wes Fryer, the man moving at the speed of creativity. His specialty his always being at the forefront of anything and everything that is creative learning. He believes that we are in the most exciting age of earth history for anyone with ideas because at this point in human history, one merely needs to make a blog, or podcast from their living room and they can share it with anyone and everyone across the world. A few of his blogs are just notes he took down in a conference or a meeting. While his presence at the meeting may not be immediately felt, once he blogs about it he really tries to reinforce the ideas that were presented. In one of his blogs he was learning more about the FOSS science curriculum. In the presentation, they said that when a school picks up FOSS there should be one kit per teacher. I will try to explain what FOSS is from my limited researching, FOSS is a tool used from K-8, with a hands-on style of learning. unfortunately the only way to see what it actually does is to have an account with FOSSweb. But from snooping around i discovered that there is a FOSS activity for almost every area of sciences in every grade level. In Fryer's blog they show how they traced out a mountain with topographic map from Google earth then, for each contour line cut out a piece of foam, stacked them on top of each other and build a 3-D map.
In another blog Fryer writes about how we should not be discouraged from using mobile phones for learning. I thought that this idea was amazing. Usually when you want to adapt something from real life, you make sure that everyone has access to it. We started using computers when almost everyone had one. Now we use podcasts because of the convenience. When you think about it, why haven't been using mobile phones in the classroom. We know that every kid has one, and even if they didn't it would not be hard for the school to get a rental track phone to rent, much like how schools loan out calculators in math class. Doing this would be help the kids participate and interact, which is the most important things for learning according to Fryer.
