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01:05:08

EdTechSR Ep 239 Debunking Security Myths

EdTech Situation Room by Jason Neiffer and Wes Fryer ·

2021/11/25

Welcome to episode 239 ("Debunking Security Myths") of the EdTech Situation Room from November 17, 2021, where technology news meets educational analysis. This week Jason Neiffer (@techsavvyteach) and Wesley Fryer (@wfryer) discussed the politics of international Facebook criticism, Facebook's role in Ethiopia's nascent civil war, and Facebook's (Meta's) lockdown of internal employee speech and criticism. Some good stories of social media sharing involving WordPress and cooking recipes, the removal

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01:01:55

EdTechSR Ep 238 Chegg Extortion Revealed

EdTech Situation Room by Jason Neiffer and Wes Fryer ·

2021/11/13

Welcome to episode 238 ("Chegg Extortion Revealed") of the EdTech Situation Room from November 10, 2021, where technology news meets educational analysis. This week Jason Neiffer (@techsavvyteach) and Wesley Fryer (@wfryer) discussed a story of extortion via the "homework help" website Chegg, the freemium future of Notability for iPadOS, and the social media lessons learned because of the (relatively) recent eruption of Kilauea in Hawaii. The benefits of social media powered news reading with

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01:01:00

EdTechSR Ep 237 Fixing Social Media

EdTech Situation Room by Jason Neiffer and Wes Fryer ·

2021/11/09

Welcome to episode 237 ("TBA") of the EdTech Situation Room from November 3, 2021, where technology news meets educational analysis. This week Jason Neiffer (@techsavvyteach) and Wesley Fryer (@wfryer) discussed an amazing Wall Street Journal article featuring 12 Internet and cultural visionaries on "How to Fix Social Media." Other articles on the social media / "tech correction" topic included "Facebook's Lost Generation," Facebook's name change to "Meta," the impact of Zuckerberg's dream to

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01:06:11

EdTechSR Ep 236 Shame on Canon

EdTech Situation Room by Jason Neiffer and Wes Fryer ·

2021/10/23

Welcome to episode 236 ("Shame on Canon") of the EdTech Situation Room from October 20, 2021, where technology news meets educational analysis. This week Jason Neiffer (@techsavvyteach) and Wesley Fryer (@wfryer) discussed the biggest announcements from Apple's Monday "Unleashed" event, The Apple Music Voice plan, Google's Pixel 6 Event announcements, and the forthcoming launch of Chrome OS 94 with better human sounding voices. Other topics included MacOS' forthcoming update to "Monterey" on October

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01:02:22

EdTechSR Ep 235 TikTok is Huge

EdTech Situation Room by Jason Neiffer and Wes Fryer ·

2021/10/15

Welcome to episode 235 ("TikTok is Huge") of the EdTech Situation Room from October 13, 2021, where technology news meets educational analysis. This week Jason Neiffer (@techsavvyteach) and Wesley Fryer (@wfryer) discussed Epic's ongoing court battles over third party smartphone app payment processors with both Apple and Google, as well as upcoming tech events next week by Apple, Google and Samsung. Options for editing PDF files in a web browser (including on Chromebooks) included a new Acrobat

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01:06:28

EdTechSR Ep 234 Regulate Facebook Please

EdTech Situation Room by Jason Neiffer and Wes Fryer ·

2021/10/09

Welcome to episode 234 ("Regulate Facebook Please") of the EdTech Situation Room from October 6, 2021, where technology news meets educational analysis. This week Jason Neiffer (@techsavvyteach) and Wesley Fryer (@wfryer) discussed Microsoft news including how to update to Windows 11 without waiting in line, recommended preparatory steps to take BEFORE upgrading to Windows 11, and positive reviews of the new Surface Pro 8 computer. In Google news, the forthcoming Chromebook launcher with smaller

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01:07:47

EdTechSR Ep 233 Privacy Protection Prescriptions

EdTech Situation Room by Jason Neiffer and Wes Fryer ·

2021/10/05

Welcome to episode 233 ("Privacy Protection Prescriptions") of the EdTech Situation Room from September 29, 2021, where technology news meets educational analysis. This week Jason Neiffer (@techsavvyteach) and Wesley Fryer (@wfryer) discussed Apple updates to its productivity software suite, iPhone 13 stress tests and reviews, and strategies to avoid a Facebook hack. An important new guide to "resetting privacy controls" on your devices from the Washington Post, the NSA and CIA's behavioral

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01:04:37

EdTechSR Ep 232 Instagram = Teen Poison

EdTech Situation Room by Jason Neiffer and Wes Fryer ·

2021/10/03

Welcome to episode 232 ("Instagram = Teen Poison") of the EdTech Situation Room from September 22, 2021, where technology news meets educational analysis. This week Jason Neiffer (@techsavvyteach) and Wesley Fryer (@wfryer) discussed exciting features in the new iOS 15, The Wall Street Journal's new series harshly criticizing the behavior and culture of Facebook, "The Facebook Files," and a New York Times article explaining Facebook's new PR effort to avoid apologies and promote positive articles

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01:05:13

EdTechSR Ep 231 Epic Apple Show

EdTech Situation Room by Jason Neiffer and Wes Fryer ·

2021/09/17

Welcome to episode 231 ("Epic Apple Show") of the EdTech Situation Room from September 16, 2021, where technology news meets educational analysis. This week Jason Neiffer (@techsavvyteach) and Wesley Fryer (@wfryer) discussed virtually every aspect of the September 14th Apple Event. (Seriously, this is our most egregious Apple fanboi episode to date...) New iPads, new iPad Minis, new iPhones, new Apple Watches and other updates were all highlighted and analyzed. The introductory video to Apple's

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01:05:52

EdTechSR Ep 230 Don't Shame WikiPedians

EdTech Situation Room by Jason Neiffer and Wes Fryer ·

2021/09/13

Welcome to episode 230 ("TBA") of the EdTech Situation Room from September 9, 2021, where technology news meets educational analysis. This week Jason Neiffer (@techsavvyteach) and Wesley Fryer (@wfryer) discussed Google's new ChromeOS notetaking web app, Cursive, Microsoft's addition of "Reading" to MS Teams, and Windows 11 CPU requirements for older computers. Apple's upcoming September 14th iPhone event and Twitter powered notification service, a call to stop "source shaming" the use of WikiPedia

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01:03:53

EdTechSR Ep 229 Podcast Platform Agnostics

EdTech Situation Room by Jason Neiffer and Wes Fryer ·

2021/09/01

Welcome to episode 229 ("Podcast Platform Agnostics") of the EdTech Situation Room from August 25, 2021, where technology news meets educational analysis. This week Jason Neiffer (@techsavvyteach) and Wesley Fryer (@wfryer) discussed back-to-school technology smart buys, tips for Windows 11 users wanting to do a clean install or switch default browsers, and Microsoft's push to Office web apps over Android apps for ChromeOS users. On the Google front, we highlighted the upcoming requirement for 2FA

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01:02:26

EdTechSR Ep 228 NFT Rock Bargains

EdTech Situation Room by Jason Neiffer and Wes Fryer ·

2021/08/20

Welcome to episode 228 ("NFT Rock Bargains") of the EdTech Situation Room from August 18, 2021, where technology news meets educational analysis. This week Jason Neiffer (@techsavvyteach) and Wesley Fryer (@wfryer) discussed Microsoft "PrintNightmare Ransomware," T-Mobile's confirmed (and large) customer data breach, and the differences between Credit Freezes and Fraud Alerts. An amazing podcast interview with Eswar Prasad about "Why Crypto Matters," a crazy article about free clipart of a cartoon

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01:05:21

EdTechSR Ep 227 Facebook Bad Actor

EdTech Situation Room by Jason Neiffer and Wes Fryer ·

2021/08/16

Welcome to episode 227 ("Facebook Bad Actor") of the EdTech Situation Room from August 11, 2021, where technology news meets educational analysis. This week Jason Neiffer (@techsavvyteach) and Wesley Fryer (@wfryer) discussed Facebook's shutdown of disinformation academic researchers, growing distrust of Facebook as a platform overall, and efforts by Facebook to re-engineer its advertisements to allegedly support more user privacy. The reality that purchased digital movies are really just leased,

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01:02:28

EdTechSR Ep 226 Big YouTube EDU Changes

EdTech Situation Room by Jason Neiffer and Wes Fryer ·

2021/08/14

Welcome to episode 226 ("Big YouTube EDU Changes") of the EdTech Situation Room from August 4, 2021, where technology news meets educational analysis. This week Jason Neiffer (@techsavvyteach) and Wesley Fryer (@wfryer) discussed news articles on Microsoft Office running on Chromebooks, PWAs (progressive web apps), emojis, cloud-based Windows 365 computers for rent, and the near-disaster on the International Space Station involving the new Nauka module from Russia. Problems with M1 MacBook displays,

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01:08:13

EdTechSR Ep 225 Beware Video Embeds

EdTech Situation Room by Jason Neiffer and Wes Fryer ·

2021/08/03

Welcome to episode 225 ("Beware Video Embeds") of the EdTech Situation Room from July 28, 2021, where technology news meets educational analysis. This week Jason Neiffer (@techsavvyteach) and Wesley Fryer (@wfryer) discussed media literacy, privacy, changing iOS app icons, Microsoft Edge's latest version, Google news, social media updates from Clubhouse, Twitter and Facebook, and a cautionary tale from a defunct video sharing site. Please see our shownotes for links to all these articles and

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01:02:48

EdTechSR Ep 224 Stores Watch You

EdTech Situation Room by Jason Neiffer and Wes Fryer ·

2021/07/22

Welcome to episode 224 ("Stores Watch You") of the EdTech Situation Room from July 21, 2021, where technology news meets educational analysis. This week Jason Neiffer (@techsavvyteach) and Wesley Fryer (@wfryer) discussed the extent of retail facial recognition and why it matters, Automattic's acquisition of PocketCasts, the recent FTC ruling supporting the "Right to Repair," and ongoing proposals for "Big Tech Regulation" / "The Tech Correction." Additional topics highlighted included useful iOS

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01:00:18

EdTechSR Ep 223 Windows 11 Underwhelms

EdTech Situation Room by Jason Neiffer and Wes Fryer ·

2021/07/15

Welcome to episode 223 ("Windows 11 Underwhelms") of the EdTech Situation Room from July 14, 2021, where technology news meets educational analysis. This week Jason Neiffer (@techsavvyteach) and Wesley Fryer (@wfryer) discussed the plethora of proposed "big tech regulations" in the U.S. Congress (our ongoing "tech correction,") the underwhelming and somewhat confusing release of Windows 11 by Microsoft, AI content filtering by TikTok, and some articles about educational technology lessons school

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01:08:31

EdTechSR Ep 222 Ransomware Canary Speaks

EdTech Situation Room by Jason Neiffer and Wes Fryer ·

2021/06/14

Welcome to episode 222 ("Ransomware Canary Speaks") of the EdTech Situation Room from June 9, 2021, where technology news meets educational analysis. This week Jason Neiffer (@techsavvyteach) and Wesley Fryer (@wfryer) discussed our ongoing computer chip shortage and likely impacts, the FCC-managed $7 billion connectivity fund for U.S. schools, and tech reviews on Lon.TV. Media recommendations from Wes' middle school students, Apple's WWDC 2021 announcements (just a few of them, there were a TON of

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01:02:57

EdTechSR Ep 221 iPad as Laptop NO

EdTech Situation Room by Jason Neiffer and Wes Fryer ·

2021/06/07

Welcome to episode 221 ("iPad as Laptop NO") of the EdTech Situation Room from June 2, 2021, where technology news meets educational analysis. This week Jason Neiffer (@techsavvyteach) and Wesley Fryer (@wfryer) discussed the merits of the iPad as a potential, functional replacement for a MacOS laptop, a wishlist for iPadOS features, the risks of purchasing an Apple Watch Series 3 today, and the forthcoming, speedy Mac Mini. A positive review of the Apple iMac M1 rounded out this week's

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01:04:30

EdTechSR Ep 220 The Big Lebowski

EdTech Situation Room by Jason Neiffer and Wes Fryer ·

2021/05/29

Welcome to episode 220 ("The Big Lebowski") of the EdTech Situation Room from May 26, 2021, where technology news meets educational analysis. This week Jason Neiffer (@techsavvyteach) and Wesley Fryer (@wfryer) discussed Jason's increasing resemblance to Jeff Bridges, lots of updates to Google Workspace (formerly known as Google Suite,) Google I/O 2021 updates, and Google's apparent rediscovery of RSS. The less-than-perfect ways people are using password managers, the forthcoming retirement (in

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