An outstanding example of leveraging video and social media communication as a public official: bsky.app/profile/mayo... #MediaLit #edtechSR

Last week, we announced a plan to make child care universal. Today, applications are open for pre-K & 3-K. If your child is turning 3 or 4, apply now for the fall at: myschools.nyc

@indivisible.org @indivisibleclt.bsky.social We had 28 at a pop-up on the Elm Ln overpass today! Some were members of ICLT who had never attended, and others were not members but had driven by and seen us. By comparison, this site had 5 or 6 in attendance last week.

BELIEVE YOUR EYES, NOT THEIR LIES #ICEOUT #ICEOUTCLT #ARRESTJONATHANROSS

American Federation of Teachers is (finally!) dumping X, and moving to Bluesky. Good for them!

(1/2) Here's a 5.5 minute video clip of Shāna Blake's inspiring song, "Rise Up" at the start of the "ICE Out For Good" protest and rally yesterday at First Ward Park: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yppk... Please share this on your own social media pages.

Here is the YouTube livestream link for today's #ICEoutForGood protest rally in uptown, Charlotte, NC. Please share! www.youtube.com/live/FXdetJCP... #resist #protest #ResistAndH#resistd#protestC#ResistAndHeale#indivisibleCLT

(1/2) It’s a good time to be a Media Literacy advocate. “There are no brakes to pump: As Trump wooed and cowed Silicon Valley’s billionaires, American internet platforms actively dismantled what protections they built against disinformation. Now, being a fact-checker can get you denied a US

I want my Mtv wantmymtv.vercel.app (One of the coolest video aggregation apps and projects I've seen to date) #edtechS#edtechSRt#geekoftheweekc#cooltech

"…the present darkness does not have the final say." #prophesy via the meditation for December 19 by Lindsey Krinks: "Keep Watch with Me: An Advent Reader for Peacemakers" a.co/d/9MxfZfl

Senators Ron Wyden, Ben Ray Lujan, and Ed Markey just published an open letter urging Apple + Google to remove the X and Grok apps from their app stores: www.nbcnews.com/tech/interne...

Speaking Out Against State Violence and Terrorism (10.5 min) This is a video I recorded this morning before school as a Facebook Live video. On Substack & YouTube: resistandheal.substack.com/p/speaking-o... www.youtube.com/watch?v=9b8B... #resist #ResistAndHeal #protest #HealOurCulture #SpeakOut

Join us as we celebrate nine years of breaking norms, dreaming big, and showing up for our community. 📅 Saturday, January 24 | 2–5 PM 📍 Watershed Church With special guests Chris Armitage & Kate Barr, a message from AG Jeff Jackson, and food by Tasty Plates. RSVP in our bio!

(1/2) Please join #indivisibleCLT at 2 PM Sunday in uptown Charlotte to protest the murder of Renee Nicole Good of Minneapolis by US federal ICE agents, and the overall, ongoing campaign of state sponsored racial terror by the Trump administration. These are both public links you can share widely

Tonight we watched "Train Dreams" on Netflix: www.imdb.com/title/tt29768334... It is a haunting and beautiful film.

(1/2 To help my Middle School Computer Programming class in Canvas be easier to navigate and just more FUN, I used Nano Banana / Gemini 3 to create some banner graphics for my course homepage, which link to different modules. #MediaLit #edtech #coding #create2learn #AI #Gemini #NanoBanana

Thanks to Jason Neiffer for letting me know about the Presidential AI Challenge. Deadline for submissions is 20 January 2026. I'm considering applying. www.ai.gov/initiatives/presid... #AI #MediaLit #edtech

Please join Jason and Wes for Episode 366 tonight at 9pm ET / 8pm CT / 7pm MT / 6pm PT for Episode 366! www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyK5l... #edtechSR ##edtechSRc#AIM#BigTech##MediaLit

What happens when corruption just gets passed up the ladder to more corrupt courts? In ICLT’s second podcast episode, Chris Armitage lays out why soft secession and interstate compacts may be one of the only remaining tools to force accountability at the federal level.

Please join us! #IndivisibleCLT #CLT #ResistAndHeal

[PODCAST] The Creation of America's Car Culture by #TheWarOnCars pca.st/episode/dbc37120-91c8-... #history #propaganda #Media#historyi#propaganda##MediaLitb#MediaLit##carsi#autost#UrbanDesignn#politicso#Motordomo#AutoIndustry

(1/2 I wrote and shared a new Substack post tonight, "Media Literacy Roundup: 5 Jan 2026" wfryer.substack.com/p/media-lite... Please check it out and SHARE it! #MediaLit #MediaLiteracy #IoT #SmartHome #AI #DeepFake #edtech

AI Deepfakes Are Impersonating Pastors to Try to Scam Their Congregations (Wired, 5 Jan 2025) Paywall free link: archive.ph/oQKwj Original link: www.wired.com/story/ai-deepfa... #MediaLit #MediaLiteracy #DeepFake #misinfo #edtechSR

(1/2) Added to my #WonderLinks page: [VIDEO] Artemis Science: Visualizing NASA’s Next Lunar Flyby (6 min) www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdF4... Also added to my “VIDEOS: SPACE EXPLORATION - MOON / MARS HABITATION” page: #SpaceEd #stem #NCed #curiosity #space #CodingMars

Wonderful BBC History Hour episode about the history of SMS text messaging, luxury trains in South Africa, Radio Free Europe, & more! pca.st/episode/1ca0fddc-1fc7-... #PodcastRecc

(1/2) Wow, Google’s #NotebookLM has blown my mind again… This time with an AI overview VIDEO (7.5 min) I created titled, “Games, Lies, and Your Brain” www.youtube.com/watch?v=zd4M... I put 13 sources into a NotebookLM Notebook for tomorrow’s “Gamifying The Feed” webinar for the Media Education

(1/2) I successfully vibe coded my first web app using "Firebase Studio"… Using Gemini Pro to help me with my prompts in Firebase Studio's AI. It's a VERY simple "Feed Hub" to aggregate some of the voices / social media profiles from our #MediaEdClub community: media-ed-feed-hub-295418-fd59...

(1/2) Prepping for tomorrow’s #MediaEdClub webinar, I checked out the media literacy game “NewsFeed Defenders” from FactCheck.org: www.factcheck.org/newsfeed-def... This is included in this linked list of media literacy games from UNC Charlotte: respectfulconversation.charlotte.edu/media-litera...

HCR explains (among other things) why the recent US invasion and intervention in Venezuela means the United States has dismantled "the rules based international order" created after World War II. This is a very big deal, and VERY bad. www.youtube.com/live/7JXQhff9aGc #ResistA#ResistAndHeal

Check out my new family learning blog post, with audio recorded in 2012 when Rachel was 9, thinking about becoming a scientist, working with NASA, and attending the US Air Force Academy: “I Want To Be A Scientist (Rachel at Age 9)” learningsigns.speedofcreativity.org/2026/01/03/i... #stem

Saturday morning "examen" Give Thanks to God for This Moment - Pray As You Go prayasyougo.org/prayer/give-t... #dw4jc

...our last tutorial of the year! How to Make a Top-Down RPG in OctoStudio! It's as fun as it looks! See you all in the New Year ✨ www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_se...

Check out my new video, “Building a Resilient Smart Home: Lessons from an Internet Outage” (10.5 min) youtu.be/K1J1gDK1TT0 Check out more of my blog posts and videos about Smart Home technologies on: smarthome.wesfryer.com #SmartHome #IoT #howto #Google #Zigbee #WiFi #prepper #CommPrep

Check out and view our December 29th #edtechSR podcast episode: "Nano Banana Era" edtechsr.substack.com/p/edtec... #edtechSR #AI #Gemini #MediaLit #edtechSRe#AIy#Gemini

I've fully switched over to the Vivaldi web browser on my MacOS laptops, iPhone and iPad, and I'm LOVING it! vivaldi.com/download/ #MediaLi#MediaLit #edtechS#edtechSR

Check out my new blog post, "Nature, Screens and Healing" www.speedofcreativity.org/202... #GoOutside #Screentime #MediaLit #Nature#GoOutside

#dw4jc Luke‬ ‭2‬:‭16‬-‭21‬ ‭NRSV‬‬ triangletoot.party/@wesfryer/11...

Classroom AI Rules: Full attribution and Goals to HELP not harm youtube.com/shorts/Fyd_L... #AI #MediaLit #ethics #teaching

AI and Elections: A looming disinformation crisis youtube.com/shorts/BGUtj... #MediaLit #disinformation #elections #deepfakes

(1/2) Greed and selfishness should not be the ultimate values in our society and culture. Some thoughts I shared back in February 2024, at the VA Hospital in Salisbury, North Carolina: youtu.be/gg0rxp5AQ_4?... healourculture.org/2024/02/18/h...

#book2read: A Big Little Life: A Memoir of a Joyful Dog Named Trixie by Dean Koontz a.co/d/ctm0M0Y

Another example of how the U.S. political right appropriates digital tools, platforms, and data to create, (re)frame, and remix data visualizations to spread anti-immigrant propaganda. If you're interested in learning more, here's a paper from my research team: dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Please join Jason Neiffer and Wes Fryer for our last EdTech Situation Room show of 2025, on Monday evening at 9pm ET / 8pm CT / 7pm MT / 6pm PT. On YouTube LIVE: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfal... Show notes on: www.edtechsr.com/links #AI #edtech #edtechSR #MediaLit #BigTech #ethics

(1/2) Check out the recorded video version of my December 26th presentation, “Stories About AI” at Meadowlark Hills Retirement Community! On Substack: wfryer.substack.com/p/stories-ab... On YouTube: youtu.be/zY1dcBRTZwg?...

Excellent recommended Substack newsletter: "The Important Work - Teaching Writing in the Age of Al" open.substack.com/pub/theimpo... #edtechSR #MediaLit #AI #MediaLiterac#edtechSR

This afternoon I'm sharing a presentation titled, "Stories about AI: December 2025 Edition" at Meadowlark Hills Retirement Community in Manhattan, Kansas. My presentation slides and recommended media links are available on: wfryer.me/dec26 #AI #MediaLit #MediaLiteracy

A YouTube option for watching the banned 60 Minutes CECOT episode: youtu.be/jiehEMlNiCI?si=BKy1x... #ResistAndHeal

#book2read: "You Have Not Yet Heard Your Favourite Song: Music in the Age of Streaming" by Glenn McDonald a.co/d/3UxXAqD via [VIDEO] Renee Hobbs "It's All in the Family: Media Education in the Age of AI" youtu.be/r5DtfJh_iiA?si=enBbS... #spotify #MediaLit #Medi#spotifyy#MediaLitn#MediaLiteracy

Watch The Full CECOT Episode: (CBS 60 Minutes, Qasim Rashid, 22 Dec 2025) www.qasimrashid.com/p/watch-t... #politics #ConCW #humanrights #politicsj#ConCW #humanrightse#criminaljustice

The day after Christmas, on Dec 26th, I’ll share an updated version of my presentation, “Stories About AI” at Meadowlark Hills Retirement Community in Manhattan, Kansas. I just finished planning & outlining my talk. I’ll share the slides & an audio recording of the talk on ai.wesfryer.com #MediaLit