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EdTech Situation Room Podcast by Jason Neiffer and Wes Fryer

Jason Neiffer and Wes Fryer

Where technology news meets educational analysis! Jason Neiffer (aicentrist.com) and Wes Fryer (wesfryer.com) discuss the past week"s technology news through an educational lens. Focusing on AI and media literacy!

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All Episodes

01:06:43

EdTech Situation Room Episode 130

EdTech Situation Room Podcast by Jason Neiffer and... ·

2019/04/12

Welcome to episode 130 of the EdTech Situation Room from April 10, 2019, where technology news meets educational analysis. This week Jason Neiffer (@techsavvyteach) and Wesley Fryer (@wfryer) discussed YouTube's challenges moderating objectionable content, the human costs of that content moderation, and the incredibly hostile digital infrastructure which is now online amplifying that content for apparently malicious purposes. HUD's new lawsuit against Facebook for illegally targeted housing

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01:01:05

EdTech Situation Room Episode 129

EdTech Situation Room Podcast by Jason Neiffer and... ·

2019/04/04

Welcome to episode 129 of the EdTech Situation Room from April 3, 2019, where technology news meets educational analysis. This week Jason Neiffer (@techsavvyteach) and Wesley Fryer (@wfryer) discussed more technology links than should technically be "legal" for a free #edtech podcast. Topics included the NSO Group and Pegasus iPhone malware and the proliferation of Android-based pre-installed apps posing privacy and security issues. Dangers anticipated via the upcoming bi-annual Windows10 update

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01:05:34

EdTech Situation Room Episode 128

EdTech Situation Room Podcast by Jason Neiffer and... ·

2019/03/29

Welcome to episode 128 of the EdTech Situation Room from March 27, 2019, where technology news meets educational analysis. This week Jason Neiffer (@techsavvyteach) and Wesley Fryer (@wfryer) discussed how amazing Garageband software continues to be, this past week's Apple Event announcements, implications of Article 13's passage in the EU for user created content, freedom of expression, and the potential of a further fractured global Internet. Additional topics included MacBook keyboard reliability

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01:04:45

EdTech Situation Room Episode 127

EdTech Situation Room Podcast by Jason Neiffer and... ·

2019/03/08

Welcome to episode 127 of the EdTech Situation Room from March 7, 2019, where technology news meets educational analysis. This week Jason Neiffer (@techsavvyteach) and Wesley Fryer (@wfryer) discussed Google's new Chromebook App Hub website, OpenAI's decision to NOT share a new AI text generator, and Microsoft's forthcoming "Windows Lite" operating system. Dipayan Ghosh & Ben Scott's advocacy to promote intelligent regulation of Facebook and other Silicon Valley companies enabling "precision

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01:01:29

EdTech Situation Room Episode 126

EdTech Situation Room Podcast by Jason Neiffer and... ·

2019/03/01

Welcome to episode 126 of the EdTech Situation Room from February 28, 2019, where technology news meets educational analysis. This week Jason Neiffer (@techsavvyteach) was on assignment at the NCCE Conference in Seattle. In this episode, Wesley Fryer (@wfryer) and Beth Holland (@brholland) discussed baby duck syndrome, resources by PBS Learning Media including "The Cat in the Hat" online, and what's revealed about student perceptions when they "draw a scientist." Additional topics included the

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01:03:41

EdTech Situation Room Episode 125

EdTech Situation Room Podcast by Jason Neiffer and... ·

2019/02/15

Welcome to episode 125 of the EdTech Situation Room from February 13, 2019, where technology news meets educational analysis. This week Jason Neiffer (@techsavvyteach) and Wesley Fryer (@wfryer) discussed the death of NASA's Mars Opportunity rover, cybersecurity incidents in K12 schools, weak U.S. government enforcement of privacy laws, and criticism of both Apple and Google for allowing Saudi men to use apps to track and oppress women. Controversy over developer use of iOS screen recording

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01:03:15

EdTech Situation Room Episode 124

EdTech Situation Room Podcast by Jason Neiffer and... ·

2019/02/07

Welcome to episode 124 of the EdTech Situation Room from February 6, 2019, where technology news meets educational analysis. This week Jason Neiffer (@techsavvyteach) and Wesley Fryer (@wfryer) discussed YouTube's most recent letter to Creators, Google's Jigsaw project which uses AI to help human moderators identify toxic posts which violate community standards, and the Japanese government's plans to hack into citizen's IoT devices to update firmware. Additional topics included Spotify's recent

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01:02:49

EdTech Situation Room Episode 123

EdTech Situation Room Podcast by Jason Neiffer and... ·

2019/01/31

Welcome to episode 123 of the EdTech Situation Room from January 30, 2019, where technology news meets educational analysis. This week Jason Neiffer (@techsavvyteach) and Wesley Fryer (@wfryer) discussed the advance of YouTube's local video content, Google's attempt to address conspiracy / outlier content on YouTube, and the new Gmail app for Android and iOS. The global decline in smartphone sales, the expectation smartphones are going to "get weird" to boost sales, Google's efforts to address

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01:01:31

EdTech Situation Room Episode 122

EdTech Situation Room Podcast by Jason Neiffer and... ·

2019/01/25

Welcome to episode 122 of the EdTech Situation Room from January 23, 2019, where technology news meets educational analysis. This week Jason Neiffer (@techsavvyteach) and Wesley Fryer (@wfryer) discussed highlights from the recent Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, and a series of articles further highlighting our ongoing "Technology Correction." These included a new fine for Google because of GDPR, and an excellent podcast interview with Shoshana Zuboff (@shoshanazuboff) about her new

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01:05:45

EdTech Situation Room Episode 121

EdTech Situation Room Podcast by Jason Neiffer and... ·

2019/01/11

Welcome to episode 121 of the EdTech Situation Room from January 10, 2019, where technology news meets educational analysis. This week Jason Neiffer (@techsavvyteach) and Wesley Fryer (@wfryer) discussed the implications of Apple's disappointing earnings projection for the first quarter of 2019, Baratunde Thurston's Tech Manifesto addressing how we should protect data privacy, and the intense technological as well as economic struggles underway between the United States and China, specifically via

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01:01:10

EdTech Situation Room Episode 120

EdTech Situation Room Podcast by Jason Neiffer and... ·

2019/01/03

Welcome to episode 120 of the EdTech Situation Room from January 3, 2019, where technology news meets educational analysis. This week Jason Neiffer (@techsavvyteach) and Wesley Fryer (@wfryer) discussed 2018 "Tech Report Cards" from the Verge on Apple, Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Microsoft. The proliferation of bots and fake content online, and the challenges this presents for online media metrics as well as media literacy, was highlighted. The release of thousands of works into the public domain

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01:06:01

EdTech Situation Room Episode 119

EdTech Situation Room Podcast by Jason Neiffer and... ·

2018/12/27

Welcome to episode 119 of the EdTech Situation Room from December 26, 2018, where technology news meets educational analysis. This week Jason Neiffer (@techsavvyteach) and Wesley Fryer (@wfryer) discussed copyright and intellectual property issues on the Teachers Pay Teachers (@tptdotcom) website, YouTube creator backlash amidst other "trust issues" with Google, and the challenges of radicalization and "outlier content" on YouTube based on its attention-maximizing algorithms. Continuing warnings

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01:06:20

EdTech Situation Room Episode 118

EdTech Situation Room Podcast by Jason Neiffer and... ·

2018/12/13

Welcome to episode 118 of the EdTech Situation Room from December 12, 2018, where technology news meets educational analysis. This week Jason Neiffer (@techsavvyteach) and Wesley Fryer (@wfryer) co-hosted a special episode titled, the 2018 Technology Shopping Cart! They shared and discussed a variety of different technology and geek oriented gift ideas. Gift categories included smartphone stuff, The Internet of Things (IoT), books, robots, STEM/STEAM lab, miscellaneous gadgets, home networking

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01:02:35

EdTech Situation Room Episode 117

EdTech Situation Room Podcast by Jason Neiffer and... ·

2018/12/06

Welcome to episode 117 of the EdTech Situation Room from December 5, 2018, where technology news meets educational analysis. This week Jason Neiffer (@techsavvyteach) and Wesley Fryer (@wfryer) discussed the past week's technology news through an educational lens. Topics for the show included Microsoft's embrace of Chromium for their Windows10 web browser, the death of the Edge Browser, best choices on Mac laptops for schools after October's special Apple event, and the perils of YouTube networks

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00:59:41

EdTech Situation Room Episode 116

EdTech Situation Room Podcast by Jason Neiffer and... ·

2018/11/30

Welcome to episode 116 of the EdTech Situation Room from November 29, 2018, where technology news meets educational analysis. This week Jason Neiffer (@techsavvyteach) and Wesley Fryer (@wfryer) discussed the past week's technology news through an educational lens. Topics for the show included the continued growth of mobile broadband connectivity worldwide, the expanded availability of Google Fi, and varying opinions about Google's new Pixel Slate tablet. The milestone last week of Microsoft

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01:04:35

EdTech Situation Room Episode 115

EdTech Situation Room Podcast by Jason Neiffer and... ·

2018/11/22

Welcome to episode 115 of the EdTech Situation Room from November 21, 2018, where technology news meets educational analysis. This week Jason Neiffer (@techsavvyteach) and Wesley Fryer (@wfryer) discussed the past week's technology news through an educational lens. Topics for the show included the recent outages of cloud services including Microsoft's Azure Active Directory and LastPass Password Manager, and multiple signs of "The Technology Correction." These included calls for regulating Facebook,

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01:05:04

EdTech Situation Room Episode 114

EdTech Situation Room Podcast by Jason Neiffer and... ·

2018/11/15

Welcome to episode 114 of the EdTech Situation Room from November 14, 2018, where technology news meets educational analysis. This week Jason Neiffer (@techsavvyteach) and Wesley Fryer (@wfryer) discussed the past week's technology news through an educational lens. Topics for the show included college students at UC Berkeley developing browser extensions to identify political bot accounts on social media, prospects for liberal democracy portrayed in PBS Frontline's recent series "The Facebook

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01:06:24

EdTech Situation Room Episode 113

EdTech Situation Room Podcast by Jason Neiffer and... ·

2018/11/09

Welcome to episode 113 of the EdTech Situation Room from November 7, 2018, where technology news meets educational analysis. This week Jason Neiffer (@techsavvyteach), Wesley Fryer (@wfryer) and special guest Jason Kern (@jasonmkern) discussed the past week's technology news through an educational lens. Topics for the show included virtual reality in the classroom, the use of social media worldwide to radicalize politics, hardware updates from Apple's special event last week, and our need for media

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00:49:40

EdTech Situation Room Episode 112

EdTech Situation Room Podcast by Jason Neiffer and... ·

2018/10/26

Welcome to episode 112 of the EdTech Situation Room from October 24, 2018, where technology news meets educational analysis. This week Wesley Fryer (@wfryer) and special guest Jennifer Carey (@thejencarey) discussed the past week's technology news through an educational lens. Co-host Jason Neiffer (@techsavvyteach) was on special assignment. Topics highlighted in this week's show included data privacy, the "hackability" of the human mind, the recent FBI warning on student data privacy, and Tim

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01:06:45

EdTech Situation Room Episode 111

EdTech Situation Room Podcast by Jason Neiffer and... ·

2018/10/19

Welcome to episode 111 of the EdTech Situation Room from October 17, 2018, where technology news meets educational analysis. This week Wesley Fryer (@wfryer) and special guest Beth Holland (@brholland) discussed the past week's technology news through an educational lens, as well as a variety of educational issues relating to digital citizenship and digital equity. Co-host Jason Neiffer (@techsavvyteach) was on special assignment. Topics highlighted in this week's show included algorithmic literacy,

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