Wes Fryer

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Keynotes, webinars and faculty workshops

Six topics for university faculty, higher education and K-12 educators: AI literacy and teaching with AI, media literacy and conspiracy thinking, digital storytelling and oral history, reclaiming your news feeds, Who Tells Your Story?, and Protecting Your Digital Life. Each can be a keynote, webinar, breakout or faculty workshop.

Ten TV channels and a radio

Change channels on an 8-bit TV to watch TEDx talks, webinars, AI literacy and media literacy lessons, oral history, cooking and coding videos. Next door, the Studio Radio plays podcast episodes, starting with a Franklin Roosevelt fireside chat.

AI in teaching and vibe coding

Learning AI with Wes Fryer (ai.wesfryer.com) collects AI lessons, webinars and projects. Wes and his students build small web apps and games with AI tools and share the code openly on GitHub: Packet Defender, Trail Typers, PodCommons, News with Wes and Interactive Ballot.

SIFT, lateral reading and conspiracy thinking

Wes teaches middle school media literacy and facilitates monthly Media Club webinars with the Media Education Lab, where he is an Affiliated Faculty member. His Conspiracies and Culture Wars inquiry project began in 2019.

Digital storytelling and oral history

Wes works to empower people to archive the stories of their families and communities. Storychasers, family oral history interviews and his TEDxOU talk, Becoming Your Family's Digital Witness, all start here.

Books, articles and newsletters

Three books, refereed articles, two decades of columns, the Moving at the Speed of Creativity blog (since 2003) and the Media Literacy with Wes newsletter on Substack.

Civic and community work

Wes is an advocate for human rights, representative democracy and religious tolerance, and aspires to be "a culture healer, not a culture warrior." Heal Our Culture, Resist and Heal and Interactive Ballot live here.