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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

01:01:08

EdTech Situation Room Episode 100

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

2018/07/12

Welcome to episode 100 of the EdTech Situation Room from July 11, 2018, where technology news meets educational analysis. This week Jason Neiffer (@techsavvyteach) and Wesley Fryer (@wfryer) discussed recent announcements from the 2018 ISTE Conference in Chicago, Microsoft's new Surface Go budget laptop, and the opening of Pandora's Box for 3D printed guns. Security articles discussed included the worst cybersecurity breaches of 2018 (so far), the importance of never using a USB from an unknown

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01:05:13

EdTech Situation Room Episode 99

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

2018/06/20

Welcome to episode 99 of the EdTech Situation Room from June 19, 2018, where technology news meets educational analysis. This week Jason Neiffer (@techsavvyteach) and Wesley Fryer (@wfryer) discussed advice for attendees of the upcoming 2018 ISTE Conference, the AI robot debater from IBM, Facebook and social media privacy settings, and poor home wifi router security. Wes shared a weekly dose of cyberattack doom and gloom (shout out to NPR Fresh Air and their recent interview with author David E

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00:56:50

EdTech Situation Room Episode 98

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

2018/06/14

Welcome to episode 98 of the EdTech Situation Room from June 13, 2018, where technology news meets educational analysis. This week Jason Neiffer (@techsavvyteach) and Wesley Fryer (@wfryer) discussed "the day net neutrality died" (and what it means for schools now,) the coming tidal wave of giant media company mergers, and exciting developments in the world of ChromeOS. Jason unveiled his new Google PixelBook laptop, and 72 hours into ownership reports it's the highest end laptop he's ever owned

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01:12:09

EdTech Situation Room Episode 97

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

2018/06/07

Welcome to episode 97 of the EdTech Situation Room from June 6, 2018, where technology news meets educational analysis. This week Jason Neiffer (@techsavvyteach) and Wesley Fryer (@wfryer) welcomed special guest Michael J. Crawford (@mjcraw). Topics discussed included Mary Meeker’s essential 2018 Internet Trends report and new microcontrols for iOS announced at WWDC 2018 available to developers to potentially exercise more control over user screentime. The value of limiting the length of shared

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01:04:10

EdTech Situation Room Episode 96

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

2018/05/31

Welcome to episode 96 of the EdTech Situation Room from May 30, 2018, where technology news meets educational analysis. This week Jason Neiffer (@techsavvyteach) and Wesley Fryer (@wfryer) welcomed special guest Dave Quinn (@EduQuinn) to discuss Amazon Alexa's latest (and improbable) privacy snafu, Facebook marketing videos to restore public trust, Redit's ascendency over Facebook to become the number three most popular website in the United States, and the much anticipated release of the Acer

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01:04:54

EdTech Situation Room Episode 95

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

2018/05/17

Welcome to episode 95 of the EdTech Situation Room from May 16, 2018, where technology news meets educational analysis. This week Jason Neiffer (@techsavvyteach) and Wesley Fryer (@wfryer) discussed the recent vote in the U.S. Senate to preserve net neutrality, Android-related updates from Google promoting more frequent security patches by smartphone manufacturers / OEMs, and the forthcoming Oneplus 6 Smartphone. The U.S. President's reversal of a trade ban on ZTE smartphones in the United States,

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00:59:41

EdTech Situation Room Episode 94

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

2018/05/10

Welcome to episode 94 of the EdTech Situation Room from May 9, 2018, where technology news meets educational analysis. This week newly minted Ph.D. Dr. Jason Neiffer (@techsavvyteach) and Dr. Wesley Fryer (@wfryer) discussed lots of news from the Google IO developer's conference, as well as news from the Microsoft Build Conference. The continued march of artificial intelligence is evident in the forthcoming release of Google Duplex, which was demonstrated at Google IO and allows your Google

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01:04:41

EdTech Situation Room Episode 93

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

2018/05/03

Welcome to episode 93 of the EdTech Situation Room from May 2, 2018, where technology news meets educational analysis. This week Jason Neiffer (@techsavvyteach) and Wesley Fryer (@wfryer) discussed the predictable demise of Cambridge Analytica, Facebook's F8 Developer Conference and its newly announced dating website, and the announced merger of TMobile and Sprint in the United States to turbocharge the build-out of 5G cellular networks in the United States. Additional topics included the demise of

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01:06:20

EdTech Situation Room Episode 92

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

2018/04/26

Welcome to episode 92 of the EdTech Situation Room from April 25, 2018, where technology news meets educational analysis. This week Jason Neiffer (@techsavvyteach) and Wesley Fryer (@wfryer) discussed new national standards for online courses in the USA, a strange case of liability for an ewaste recycler, exciting updates for Gmail from Google, and several other tidbits of Google news. These included the movie editor in Google Photos, controversy at Google over proposed AI contracts with the U.S

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01:08:00

EdTech Situation Room Episode 91

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

2018/04/05

Welcome to episode 91 of the EdTech Situation Room from April 4, 2018, where technology news meets educational analysis. This week special guests Alice Barr (@alicebarr) and Cheryl Oakes (@cheryloakes50) along with host Wes Fryer (@wfryer) discussed the accessibility Chrome extension Plazma, the "Teach Wonder" robotics and PD program from Wonder Workshop, and Ripple's amazing fund of all DonorsChoose classroom projects recently. Additional topics included iOS 11.3's battery problems, Apple's new

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01:11:10

EdTech Situation Room Episode 90

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

2018/04/02

Welcome to episode 90 of the EdTech Situation Room from March 28, 2018, where technology news meets educational analysis. This week special guest Felix Jacomino (@FelixJacomino) and Wes Fryer (@wfryer) discussed a gripping tale of iPhone10 survival on the SheiKra Roller Coaster in Busch Gardens, Apple's Education Event in Chicago on Tuesday, digital citizenship themes surrounding the Facebook / Cambridge Analytica hoopla as well as Florida school shootings, and the upcoming closure of WikiSpaces

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01:04:20

EdTech Situation Room Episode 89

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

2018/03/23

Welcome to episode 89 of the EdTech Situation Room from March 22, 2018, where technology news meets educational analysis. This week special guest Carl Hooker (@mrhooker) and Wes Fryer (@wfryer) discussed the transition of iPadPalooza into LearningFest, Virtual Reality at SxSW 2018 and in the classroom, and the upcoming Apple Education Event in Chicago on March 27th. Additional topics included Facebook, Cambridge Analytica, and the response of Mark Zuckerberg to allegations his social media platform

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01:09:54

EdTech Situation Room Episode 88

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

2018/03/14

Welcome to episode 88 of the EdTech Situation Room from March 13, 2018, where technology news meets educational analysis. This week special guest Jennifer Carey (@TheJenCarey) and Wes Fryer (@wfryer) discussed the admirable way Florida teens have used social media to advocate for political change following the Parkland school shooting, how we can help curb trolling and harassment on Twitter by reporting it when we see it, and how YouTube seems coded to be a radicalizing influence through its

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01:01:30

EdTech Situation Room Episode 87

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

2018/03/01

Welcome to episode 87 of the EdTech Situation Room from February 28, 2018, where technology news meets educational analysis. This week Jason Neiffer (@techsavvyteach) and Wes Fryer (@wfryer) discussed news from the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, net neutrality debate in the U.S. Congress, the forthcoming freemium option in Microsoft Teams, and new Chromebooks from Lenovo. Additional topics included Facebook's facial recognition features, outlier conspiracy theories focusing on the recent

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01:02:49

EdTech Situation Room Episode 86

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

2018/02/22

Welcome to episode 86 of the EdTech Situation Room from February 21, 2018, where technology news meets educational analysis. This week Jason Neiffer (@techsavvyteach) and Wes Fryer (@wfryer) discussed Apple's HomePod and the generally negative reviews it hass received in the technology press, Chrome news including PWAs (progressive web apps), and social media's dark side revealed through the Parkland, Florida, school shooting incident. Additional topics included the need for ethics in artificial

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01:08:10

EdTech Situation Room Episode 85

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

2018/02/08

Welcome to episode 85 of the EdTech Situation Room from February 7, 2018, where technology news meets educational analysis. This week Jason Neiffer (@techsavvyteach) and Wes Fryer (@wfryer) discussed Chrome blocking autoplay videos, Smartwatch privacy issues, amazing LIDAR discoveries in Guatemalan jungles, work by the Center for Humane Technology, and changing norms with Smartphone memory capacity. Additional topics included Apple's HomePod release and Apple's AI lag behind Google and Amazon, new

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01:04:59

EdTech Situation Room Episode 84

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

2018/02/01

Welcome to episode 84 of the EdTech Situation Room from January 31, 2018, where technology news meets educational analysis. This week Jason Neiffer (@techsavvyteach) and Wes Fryer (@wfryer) discussed the weaponization of information as propaganda via online advertising and what this portends for open / democratic societies, exhortations from leaders at the World Economic Forum in Davos relating to education and artificial intelligence, and the financial impact of Facebook's recently announced

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01:06:40

EdTech Situation Room Episode 83

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

2018/01/25

Welcome to episode 83 of the EdTech Situation Room from January 24, 2018, where technology news meets educational analysis. This week Jason Neiffer (@techsavvyteach) and Wes Fryer (@wfryer) discussed the Montana governor's announcement to require net neutrality respect from ISPs with state contracts, the Hawaii governor's Twitter password gaffe during the recent false ICBM alert incident, and a series of new Google announcements relating to an IT certification program and cybersecurity spinoff

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01:00:20

EdTech Situation Room Episode 82

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

2018/01/19

Welcome to episode 82 of the EdTech Situation Room from January 17, 2018, where technology news meets educational analysis. This week Jason Neiffer (@techsavvyteach) and Wes Fryer (@wfryer) discussed upcoming changes to the Facebook news feed, the performance impact of software patches for Meltdown and Spectre, our human tendency to anthropomorphize technologies, and new highlights from CES 2018. Geeks of the week included Google's Art App (Jason), the Microsoft Launcher for Android and the YouTube

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01:11:15

EdTech Situation Room Episode 81

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

2018/01/11

Welcome to episode 80 of the EdTech Situation Room from January 10, 2018, where technology news meets educational analysis. This week Jason Neiffer (@techsavvyteach) and Wes Fryer (@wfryer) discussed important updates on the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerability issues, a few videos and articles focusing on the rise of Artificial Intelligence and the importance of putting ethics into coding, and some update from CES 2018 including the competition between Amazon and Google with smart assistants. The

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