Moving at the Speed of Creativity Podcasts

In this special 20th-anniversary episode of Moving at the Speed of Creativity, Wes Fryer reflects on a dynamic year of teaching and explores how artificial intelligence—especially through the Flint AI platform—has reshaped his middle and high school classrooms. From supporting refugee advocacy with student-created “InfoPics,” to guiding AP Computer Science students through AI-assisted writing practice, Wes shares rich examples of AI’s educational potential. He dives into how students used AI to imagine mythical creatures, develop backstories, and bring them to life in Scratch and Minecraft, and he also introduces the idea of “vibe coding,” where web design students prompt AI to generate functional code. Along the way, Wes discusses tools like Descript, Canva, and Google Vids, and offers updates on his projects like Heal Our Culture and Conspiracies & Culture Wars. It’s a wide-ranging episode that celebrates creative pedagogy, ethical reflection, and the evolving role of AI in education. This episode is available as both a mp3 audio file and audio-only video file on YouTube . (Due to issues with my WordPress podcasting plugin, this episode is not showing up in my podcast feed YET.) https://socpodcasts.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/2025-05-24-speedofcreativity.mp3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1rUnwcGpV0 Show Notes: Wes Fryer’s Main Site ( wesfryer.com ) Wes Fryer's Shared Lessons Website ( lessons.wesfryer.com ) Media Literacy Hub for Wes Fryer ( medialiteracy.wesfryer.com ) Conspiracies and Culture Wars Project ( medialiteracy.wesfryer.com/concw ) Heal Our Culture ( healourculture.org ) Resist and Heal ( resistandheal.com ) EdTech Situation Room ( edtechsr.com ) Media Literacy with Wes (Substack) ( wfryer.substack.com ) EdTechSR Substack ( edtechsr.substack.com ) Heal Our Culture Substack ( healourculture.substack.com ) Resist and Heal Substack ( resistandheal.substack.com ) Refugee Support Services of Charlotte ( refugeesupportservices.org ) InfoPics for Refugee Support Services - RSS ( lessons.wesfryer.com/courses/capstone/rss ) Photos for Class ( storyboardthat.com/photos ) Canva ( canva.com ) Auphonic ( auphonic.com ) Descript ( descript.com ) Flint AI ( flintk12.com ) ChatGPT (OpenAI) ( chatgpt.com ) Claude (Anthropic) ( claude.ai ) Code.org App Lab ( code.org/tools/applab ) Scratch ( scratch.mit.edu ) Minecraft Education ( education.minecraft.net ) MakeCode ( microsoft.com/en-us/makecode ) Google Vids (via Google Workspace) StreamYard ( streamyard.com ) Teachers for an Informed Public ( tipteachers.org ) Kevin Roose NYT Article on Vibe Coding Wes' GitHub for shared AI / vibecode ( github.com/wfryer ) AI Project Hub for Wes Fryer ( ai.wesfryer.com ) Room 208 Podcast (Bob Sprankle - bobtaughtme.com ) All podcast bumpers created by Wes Fryer in Garageband years ago... The last musical bumper is: Summertime by LiQWYD | https://soundcloud.com/liqwyd/ Music promoted by https://www.chosic.com/free-music/all/ Creative Commons CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ " Ep 483: Creativity, Code, and Compassion " ( CC BY 2.0 ) by Wesley Fryer

This podcast features an interview with 7th grader "G," who serves as a volunteer "Livestream moderator" for the website and store "Cool Kicks," based in Los Angeles, California. In the interview, "G" shares the backstory of how he become a moderator for Cool Kicks, how livestreams work, his role as a moderator, and more. Additional show notes from our interview include: www.mynaswap.com twitch.tv/coolkicks kick.com/coolkicks This podcast interview is also shared on YouTube and shared on Spotify / Anchor . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bVsAsreJks More links to connect and learn with me (Wes Fryer) are available on wesfryer.com/after . " Ep 482: Moderating Livestreams with Cool Kicks " ( CC BY 2.0 ) by Wesley Fryer

This is an interview with 7th grader "G," who serves as a volunteer "Livestream moderator" for the website and store "Cook Kicks," based in Los Angeles, California:

https://shopcoolkicks.com/

In the interview, "G" shares the backstory of how he become a moderator for Cool Kicks, how livestreams work, his role as a moderator, and more. Additional show notes from our interview include:

https://www.mynaswap.com

https://www.twitch.tv/coolkicks

https://kick.com/coolkicks

This podcast interview is also shared on the "Moving at the Speed of Creativity" podcast:

https://www.speedofcreativity.org/resources/socpodcast/

More links to connect and learn with me (Wes Fryer) are available on:

https://www.wesfryer.com/after/

This podcast features an October 2022 with middle school student CMC (his public alias) who is the creator of CMC World News ( cmcworldnews.com ). In this 20 minute conversation, CMC shares the origin story of CMC World News and how he came up with the idea, developed the website, and now maintains it with news articles for other kids around the world. He also addresses Internet safety concerns, and how he maintains his own privacy as a middle school student publishing and sharing a website which is publicly accessible for anyone to view and use. Check out the podcast shownotes for links to not only the main CMC World News website , but also the CMC World News YouTube channel . A video screencast version of this interview is also available, showing the different parts of the CMC World News website . That screencast was recorded using Screencastify software for Google Chrome. Moving at the Speed of Creativity podcasts are independently produced by Wesley Fryer of Charlotte, North Carolina, and feature episodes "where media literacy and digital storytelling intersect and change the world." Check out our latest episodes on your favorite podcast service, or directly visit speedofcreativity.org/podcast . Social media channels to follow and learn with Wesley Fryer are available on wesfryer.com/after . Moving at the Speed of Creativity Podcasts are (as of December 2022) powered by Anchor, but also cross-posted to Amazon S3! The podcast subscription feed , however, remains the same via Feedburner. Show Notes: Direct link to this podcast on Anchor (mp3 audio) CMC World News CMC World News: Kids Room (Ages 4-12) CMC World News: World News page CMC World News: Sports page CMC World News: Traveling page CMC World News: COVID-19 page CMC World News on YouTube Video Screencast Version of this Podcast Interview Dr. Fryer's Media Literacy Lessons Moving at the Speed of Creativity Podcasts RSS feed for Moving at the Speed of Creativity (Feedburner) Wes Fryer's Cooking and Recipe website ("Cook with Wes") Connect with Wesley Fryer (social media channel links) Amazon S3 backup of this audio podcast Subscribe to my podcast! Anchor Version Video Screencast Version https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SapzcNQhvWs " CMC World Student News (Episode 481) " ( CC BY 2.0 ) by Wesley Fryer

Welcome to the first of a new podcast interview series I'm titling, "Pedagogy Matters." This episode, recorded on May 30, 2022, features the pedagogy of my wife, Shelly Fryer, which I would summarize as "A Pedagogy of Computational Thinking: Constructionism, Coding, Robotics, Play, and Student Choice." Shelly started her journey as a classroom teacher in 1987 after she graduated from the College of Education at Texas Tech University. In addition to teaching in several Title 1 elementary schools in Lubbock ISD, Texas, Shelly taught for the U.S. Department of Defense in Germany for 3 years. After staying home with our children for several years, Shelly served as the Director of PreSchool Ministries at our church in Edmond, Oklahoma, and returned to the classroom in 2013 to teach 3rd, 4th and 5th grades at Positive Tomorrows in Oklahoma City for four years, which is Oklahoma's only school exclusively serving homeless children and their families. In 2017, Shelly moved to Casady School, where she taught for the past five years, starting in Language Arts for two years and then teaching STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math.) As Shelly shares in the interview, when she came back to the classroom in 2013, she moved into an iPad 1:1 student learning environment, and "jumped in with both feet" learning to teach with twenty-first century digital tools for student engagement, creativity, and assessment. We specifically key in on a culminating unit Shelly taught the past couple years on biomimicry using robotics and coding activities. Also, we explore how Shelly's understanding of computational thinking, maker education, the "constructionism" of Seymour Papert, and using technology tools to empower students to "show what they know with media" have become essential elements of her personal pedagogy as a classroom teacher and designer of durable learning experiences for students. Check out the show notes for this episode (480) on speedofcreativity.org for links to the resources and technology tools mentioned in this podcast interview, and for ways to reach out to Shelly with questions and feedback. Pedagogy matters! Many thanks to Shelly Fryer (www.shellyfryer.com) for sharing her passion for teaching, for students, for engaging lessons, and equipping both teachers and students with the skills and dispositions needed to succeed and thrive in our rapidly changing environment of the twenty-first century.

This podcast features a presentation by Wesley Fryer at the ATLIS (Association of Technology Leaders of Independent Schools) 2022 Conference in Orlando, Florida, on May 3, 2022. The title of the session was, "Teaching About Conspiracy Theories and Media Literacy." The official description was: Conspiracy theories are popular on social media and influence our local as well as national conversations and politics. How we can constructively teach about conspiracy theories and help students develop their media literacy skills to better evaluate information and sources in our digital world? This session will highlight the "Froot Loop Conspiracy Theories" media literacy unit, taught to 6th graders since fall 2020 at Casady School in Oklahoma City. By focusing on the Apollo Moon landings, students learn how to use and apply the "SIFT" web literacy framework (S = Stop, I = Investigate the source, F = Find trusted coverage, T = Trace to the original) analyzing together several online videos. While this unit is designed for middle school students, it an be adapted for other grades / ages / developmental levels. Access the full unit on lessons.wesfryer.com/lessons/conspiracy-theories . Shownotes Ways to follow and connect with Dr. Wesley Fryer: wesfryer.com/after Moving at the Speed of Creativity Podcast on Apple Podcasts (re-listed!) More FREE subscription options for "Moving at the Speed of Creativity Podcasts" Slides for "Teaching About Conspiracy Theories and Media Literacy" from May 3, 2022 at ATLIS " Teaching About Conspiracy Theories & Media Literacy " ( CC BY 2.0 ) by Wesley Fryer

In this podcast episode, Dr. Wesley Fryer shares a variety of updates about his current and changing teaching situation, geographic location, academic interests (media literacy!) and recent conferences / presentations. This podcast also includes audio from Wes’ recent video, “15 Things I Love About My Classroom (and teaching situation!)” Check out the podcast show notes for all referenced websites and links from the podcast recording, and find multiple ways to follow and connect with Wes on https://www.wesfryer.com/after. Shownotes Ways to follow and connect with Dr. Wesley Fryer: wesfryer.com/after Moving at the Speed of Creativity Podcast on Apple Podcasts (re-listed!) More FREE subscription options for "Moving at the Speed of Creativity Podcasts" Summer Institute in Digital Literacy : July 10-15, 2022 Media Literacy Resources by and collected by Wes Fryer: medialiteracy.wesfryer.com #MediaLit resources and links shared on Twitter by @wfryer CNAME a Google Site Playing with Media: Simple Ideas for Powerful Sharing (2011, v 1.0) Wes' Food, Recipe and Cooking blog: food.wesfryer.com The Story of our Family Recipe Sharing WordPress Website (December 2020) @CookWithWes on TikTok The EdTech Situation Room Podcast ( @edtechSR ) Wes' personal YouTube channel: youtube.com/wfryer Wes' old Yukon Public Schools Twitter account: youtube.com/user/coachfryer/videos (linked from stem.wesfryer.com ) Google Takeout: takeout.google.com Lessons by Dr. Wesley Fryer: lessons.wesfryer.com Jason Neiffer on Twitter: @techsavvyteach Wes' "Twitter Moment" of takeaways from NCCE 2022 #ncce22 ATLIS 2022 Conference: May 1-3, 2022 Presentation Handouts by Wes Fryer: wiki.wesfryer.com Froot Loop Conspiracy Theories Unit Pocket Share Jesus: Become a Digital Witness for Christ (almost-completed book on Pressbooks.com by Wes Fryer) Technology Fear Therapy (Wes Fryer's TEDxUCO talk from March 2021) Presentations by Dr. Wesley Fryer (YouTube playlist) Wes Fryer's Media Literacy Substack newsletter: wfryer.substack.com EdTech Situation Room Substack: edtechsr.substack.com VIDEO: 15 Things I Love About My Classroom (and teaching situation!) Feedburner Subscription Link for "Moving at the Speed of Creativity" AirServer software Waldseemüller map (English WikiPedia) "The Fourth Part of the World: The Race to the Ends of the Earth, and the Epic Story of the Map That Gave America Its Name" by Toby Lester https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aH4nEEwa5VM " Shelly and Wesley Fryer at Casady School " ( CC BY 2.0 ) by Wesley Fryer

Welcome to a special episode of "Moving at the Speed of Creativity," recorded from the Mt Moriah cemetery in Deadwood, South Dakota on June 26, 2021. Members of our family went on the "Boot Hill Tours Historical Tour of Deadwood," and I audio recorded the culminating portion at the graveside of both Wild Bill Hickock and Calamity Jane. These real people from the "wild west days" of the late 19th century were mythologized by dimestore novelists and journalists, who used the outlines of their characters to weave wild (and sometimes sordid) tales of conflict, romance, adventure, and violence. Our tour guide, Joe Williams, is a local educator and school administrator who has done extensive historical research about the area of Deadwood and specifically the lives of Wild Bill and Calamity Jane. In his narration, he dispels some of the myths surrounding these two characters and sheds light on their lives and deeds. Check out the podcast shownotes for related links to this tour and area. Shownotes Boot Hill Tours of Deadwood, South Dakota Wes' Flickr photo album from Deadwood (June 2021) History of Deadwood from Deadwood.com Wild Bill Hickock's English WikiPedia article Calamity Jane's English WikiPedia article Mt Moriah Cemetery English WikiPedia article Wes Fryer on Twitter ( @wfryer ) Wes' professional blog: speedofcreativity.org Wes' Media Literacy and Spanish Curriculum / Lessons: mdtech.casady.org Wes' periodic newsletter: "Media Literacy with Wes" Other ways to learn with Wes: wesfryer.com/after/ " Grave of Wild Bill Hickock in Deadwood " ( CC BY 2.0 ) by Wesley Fryer

Welcome to a special Spring Break episode of Moving at the Speed of Creativity, for March 16, 2021! This podcast episode features an interview with Claude Larson, the author of "The Power of Choice: A Teen's Guide to Finding Personal Success." The audience for this book is not only teenagers, but also the teachers of teenagers looking for powerful ways to build classroom community and relationships with students to foster learning about character development and life skills which extend beyond the formal academic curriculum. In the description of the book on Amazon, Claude writes to prospective teen readers, "This book was created to help you slow down, sort through the madness and figure out what you actually want in your life. It’s a guidebook and simultaneously, a gold mine of your thoughts, dreams, goals and life direction. The stories and exercises within these pages were designed to help you build habits that support you in reaching your goals. Some of the topics you will examine include what motivates you and why, how to build excellence into your daily routine and how to improve your relationships with those around you. You will also explore problem solving strategies and understanding decision-making options for creating your best outcome. Other subjects include how to deal with criticism, the importance of gratitude and how to change difficult situations into beneficial ones. Everything in these pages allow you to not only see things from your own viewpoint but, to broaden your perspective and see so many more possibilities." I had a chance to interview Claude about her book, the backstory of why she decided to write it, and how it can be used by teachers as well as teens to "find personal success." Refer to the podcast shownotes for links to the book, it's companion journal, and other ways you can connect with Claude Larson and continue learning with her. Find more ways to learn with Dr. Wesley Fryer on www.wesfryer.com/after. Shownotes Subscribe to Moving at the Speed of Creativity Podcasts Claude Larson's website: claudeblarsonllc.com On Amazon: "The Power of Choice: A Teen's Guide to Finding Personal Success" by Claude B. Larson On Amazon: The Power of Choice: Companion Journal" by Claude B. Larson On Amazon: "The Power of Choice: A Teen's Guide to Finding Personal Success Teacher's Edition" by Claude B. Larson Claude Larson on Instagram: @thepowerofchoiceforsuccess Claude's Art Blog: "Random Acts of Piece" Wes Fryer on Twitter ( @wfryer ) Wes' professional blog: speedofcreativity.org Wes' Media Literacy and Spanish Curriculum / Lessons: mdtech.casady.org Wes' periodic newsletter: "Media Literacy with Wes" Other ways to learn with Wes: wesfryer.com/after/ " The Power of Choice: A Teen’s Guide to Finding Personal Success " ( CC BY 2.0 ) by Wesley Fryer

Welcome to the first episode of Moving at the Speed of Creativity for 2021, now starting its 16th year as an educational podcast! This podcast episode features a conversation with Shelly and Wesley Fryer on January 3, 2021, reflecting on some of their lessons learned teaching elementary and middle school students during 2020, the first year of our COVID-19 global pandemic. Shelly is a 3rd grade classroom teacher at Casady School in Oklahoma City. During the fall semester of 2020, Wes has been teaching two sections of Introductory 5th Grade Spanish as well as his "normal" four sections of 5th and 6th Grade Media Literacy classes. At the start of our global pandemic lockdowns and time of "emergency remote learning" in March 2020, Wes was also serving as an instructional coach at our school, which is a role he's resuming in January 2021. Link to referenced resources from this recorded conversation, as well as links you can use to connect with Shelly and Wes, in the podcast shownotes. In 2021, Wes is rebooting his newsletter as "Media Literacy with Wes" on Substack (wfryer.substack.com). Please check it out and sign up! Also please reach out to us on Twitter (@wfryer and @sfryer) to let us know if you listen to the show and anything in particular you found interesting or resonated with you. Let us know if you have questions! You can also kick it old school and leave a comment below! Show Notes: Subscribe to Moving at the Speed of Creativity Podcasts Shelly Fryer on Twitter ( @sfryer ) Shelly's professional blog: www.shellyfryer.com Wes Fryer on Twitter ( @wfryer ) Wes' professional blog: speedofcreativity.org Wes' Media Literacy and Spanish Curriculum / Lessons: mdtech.casady.org Wes' periodic newsletter: "Media Literacy with Wes" Other ways to learn with Wes: wesfryer.com/after/ Amplify Science Curriculum Wes' 5th Grade Introductory Spanish Lessons and Curriculum What is Comprehensible Input? An Introduction for Teachers by @SpanishMamaBlog Spanish Scratch Dialog Project Lesson Plans by Wes Fryer Step-by-Step: Swivl Live Remote Teaching with 2 iPads & Laptop Swivl for Hybrid Learning (students in class face-to-face AND remote at home) The Meeting Owl smart video conferencing camera Wes' battery operated, portable classroom speaker setup: Zoweetek Portable Rechargeable Mini Voice Amplifier with Wired Microphone Headset Instructional Technology "Genius Bar" virtual workshops (recorded videos) at Casady School Casady School Seesaw Skills Project Our adult Sunday School class, "Curiosity and Questions: Jesus and Science" Our Class Blogs in Media Literacy Class at Casady School Family Oral History Unit (6th Grade Media Literacy) Conspiracy Theory Unit (6th Grade Media Literacy) Wes Fryer' Media Literacy Resources MIT Scratch Conference 2021: July 22-24, 2021 ( @scratch ) Recorded with Ferrite Recording Studio (for iOS) Edited with Audacity Optimized with Apple Music (mp3 export, 32 kbps mono) Shared with WordPress and PodLove Podcast Publisher https://twitter.com/wfryer/status/1345839043175739393 " Lessons Learned Teaching During the Pandemic " ( CC BY 2.0 ) by Wesley Fryer