Middle School Voices

This is a podcast created by Dr. Fryer‘s middle school Robotics 1-4 students on August 19, 2022, at Providence Day School in Charlotte, North Carolina. As part of our initial lessons getting to know each other this term, students wrote and read several statements about things they believe. Access more resources for our classes on: https://lessons.wesfryer.com

For this episode of our 6th grade advisory podcast, Reese interviews Dr. Fryer about siblings and travel.

Mady has started a podcast in our 6th grade advisory class. Today she did a short interview with Reese.

Welcome to a special podcast episode, shared by THIRD GRADERS in Mrs. Fryer's class! This show features interviews with Chloe-Rose, Olivia, Plum, Claire, Sophia, and Violet. Thanks to our podcast hosts, Leia and Samantha!

It’s May 26, 2021, and you’re listening to another episode our podcast, featuring interviews by sixth grade students of family members and friends at our school in Oklahoma City.

Hello and welcome to the first of two spring 2021 trimester podcast collections of 6th grade family oral history interviews. My name is Dr. Wesley Fryer, and I have the privilege of teaching required Media Literacy courses to all our 5th and 6th grade students in Oklahoma City. This year as part of our 6th Grade Computer class, which lasts 1 trimester, students learned how to conduct short oral history interviews. The interviews you are about to hear range in duration from about a minute to almost 8 minutes long, and address topics including memories from childhood and lessons learned during the past year of the COVID19 global pandemic. We’re going to hear from JohnLuke, Derin, Ella, Mason McAllister, Roshan, Max, Bote, Fahim, Drew, Emory, and Amelia, interviewing siblings, parents, an uncle, and grandparents. You can listen to more student oral history interviews as well as interviews with our faculty and staff on our Anchor podcast channel, on anchor.fm/casady. You can learn more about our media literacy class and access our units and lessons by visiting mdtech.casady.org. Thanks so much for listening… now let’s get on to the student interviews!

In fall 2019, Oklahoma City 10th grader Andrew created a wonderfully complex and innovative game as his culminating project for his study of the Old English Poem Beowulf. In this 27 minute interview, Andrew describes his game and how it connected to the themes as well as historical, cultural context of Beowulf. 10th grade English teacher, Dr. Bonnie Gerard, explains project expectations and how Andrew found a very creative way to blend his understanding of game theory, mathematics and probability, with the themes of both Beowulf as well as "honor" in Scandinavian culture to demonstrate his mastery of the unit's goals and objectives. Listen to Andrew and Dr. Gerard's description of this fantastic project and the backstory of how it was created!

An interview on March 12, 2018, with Eric Ebert. Eric teaches upper division computer science courses in Oklahoma City. Referenced book: "Teaching with Your Mouth Shut" by Donald L. Finkel: https://www.amazon.com/Teaching-Your-Mouth-Donald-Finkel/dp/0867094699

On August 26, 2017, representatives of the 4 divisions of our school met together with staff for a Saturday retreat to reflect on ways to build a school culture supportive of computer science, STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art and math) learning, Maker Education and digital literacy.

This edition features an interview with 11th grader Hannah Jordan & Mrs Sheila Kruse. They discuss a unique sociological study Hannah is conducting in Oklahoma and in France as part of an upcoming spring break trip.

This episode features an interview with Janine Perry, who teaches high school biology and environmental science in Oklahoma City. Janine uses a variety of technology integration platforms and tools with her students to enable them to show what they know using media and better retain vocabulary and concepts they are learning in class.

This episode  includes an interview with lower school art teacher Megan Thompson, who has been using an iPad in the past year to enhance and augment student learning. By using the iPad "AirPlaying" to an Apple TV connected television, encouraging students to record audio reflections about their artwork, and documenting the process of creating art projects, Mrs. Thompson is finding the iPad to be a transformative addition to her classroom toolkit as a teacher. Learn more about what is happening in Mrs. Thompson's art classroom by following her on Twitter: http://twitter.com/seeingnewshapes

Rob Huber teaches 8th grade Algebra in Oklahoma City, and has been experimenting with a variety of strategies to flip classroom learning the past two years. In this podcast interview, he talks about his journey and how he is using the iPad app Explain Everything to create short tutorial videos for students to watch at home, so they can work on more challenging problems together in class.