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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

01:09:26

EdTech Situation Room Episode 71

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

2017/10/26

Welcome to episode 71 of the EdTech Situation Room from October 25, 2017, where technology news meets educational analysis. This week Jason Neiffer (@techsavvyteach) and Wes Fryer (@wfryer) discussed Microsoft's play to offer its universe of applications (including the Edge web browser and the Cortana assistant) on Android phones, upgrade woes with iOS 11, and Coda's efforts to create a new document format merging word processing documents and spreadsheets. Security articles included a shout out to

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01:05:39

EdTech Situation Room Episode 70

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

2017/10/19

Welcome to episode 70 of the EdTech Situation Room from October 18, 2017, where technology news meets educational analysis. This week Jason Neiffer (@techsavvyteach) and Wes Fryer (@wfryer) discussed Google's new "Advanced Protection" security mode, hacker threats in several US states to parents of students, Microsoft Windows 10 "Creator Updates," and reports that our solar system has a mysterious "Super Earth" 9th planet well beyond the orbit of Neptune. Additional topics included several updates

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01:09:05

EdTech Situation Room Episode 69

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

2017/10/12

Welcome to episode 69 of the EdTech Situation Room from October 11, 2017, where technology news meets educational analysis. This week Jason Neiffer (@techsavvyteach) and Wes Fryer (@wfryer) discussed Twitter's plans to double the character limit to 280, Microsoft giving up on Windows Phone, Google's Investment in Neverware, and the emerging details about Russian election hacking and Russian company Kaspersky. Additional topics include the role of social media in distributing news today, "what

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01:06:20

EdTech Situation Room Episode 68

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

2017/10/05

Welcome to episode 68 of the EdTech Situation Room from October 4, 2017, where technology news meets educational analysis. This week Jason Neiffer (@techsavvyteach) and Wes Fryer (@wfryer) discussed today's exciting Google event and product announcements, with (as always) an eye toward the educational implications of the news. Discussed Google product announcements included the new Pixel2 smartphone, Pixelbuds supporting real-time translation in 40 languages, the updated Pixelbook, the Google Clip

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01:07:11

EdTech Situation Room Episode 67

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

2017/09/28

Welcome to episode 67 of the EdTech Situation Room from September 27, 2017, where technology news meets educational analysis. This week Jason Neiffer (@techsavvyteach) and Wes Fryer (@wfryer) discussed prison time given to a Volkswagon engineer who wrote the emissions test dodging car code, updates to Google Slides, Team Drives for G Suite users, and G Suite's new File Stream app for offline file access. Additional topics included the recent war of words between Donald Trump and Mark Zuckerberg,

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01:10:30

EdTech Situation Room Episode 66

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

2017/09/20

Welcome to episode 66 of the EdTech Situation Room from September 19, 2017, where technology news meets educational analysis. This week Jason Neiffer (@techsavvyteach) and Wes Fryer (@wfryer) discussed Facebook's struggles to define standards for censoring advertisers, Facebook "Pixel" tracking, expanded T-Mobile data caps, recommended action steps for Equifax hack victims, and the CCleaner anti-malware software hack. Additional topics included tips G Suite admins can take to prevent phishing

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01:02:14

EdTech Situation Room Episode 65

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

2017/09/14

Welcome to episode 65 of the EdTech Situation Room from September 13, 2017, where technology news meets educational analysis. This week Jason Neiffer (@techsavvyteach) and Wes Fryer (@wfryer) discussed this week's Apple Event product announcements, the huge Equifax hack and what victims can do about it, new headlines fitting in the broader topic of "This Week In Justified Paranoia," and the prospects of a Parkinson's Disease cure via gene pattern identification powered by 23andMe. Geeks of the week

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01:08:35

EdTech Situation Room Episode 64

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

2017/09/07

Welcome to episode 64 of the EdTech Situation Room from September 6, 2017, where technology news meets educational analysis. This week Jason Neiffer (@techsavvyteach) and Wes Fryer (@wfryer) discussed rumors of Apple's September 12th event and expected iPhone updates, enhanced Android app performance on Chromebooks, Gimlet Media's significant funding round supporting podcasting, and the recent NY Times article about ethics and teacher product promotion. Additional topics addressed included Apple's

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01:09:05

EdTech Situation Room Episode 63

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

2017/08/31

Welcome to episode 63 of the EdTech Situation Room from August 30, 2017, where technology news meets educational analysis. This week Jason Neiffer (@techsavvyteach) and Wes Fryer (@wfryer) discussed iPhone 9 rumors, Apple's recent Emmy Award, CRISPR and human DNA embryo editing ("DNA surgery"), fake news surrounding Hurricane Harvey, and Google’s forthcoming Chromebook Pixel laptop. Additional topics included the newly announced collaboration between Amazon’s Alexa and Microsoft’s Cortana and

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01:03:55

EdTech Situation Room Episode 62

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

2017/08/25

Welcome to episode 62 of the EdTech Situation Room from August 23, 2017, where technology news meets educational analysis. This week Jason Neiffer (@techsavvyteach) and Wes Fryer (@wfryer) discussed the new Google operating system "Oreo," the rising costs of new smartphones in the United States, whether or not Facebook poses a thread to democracy, and Wired magazine's Internet Troll map. Additional topics included "How info overload robs us of creativity," the militarization of computing via

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01:04:25

EdTech Situation Room Episode 61

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

2017/08/17

Welcome to episode 61 of the EdTech Situation Room from August 16, 2017, where technology news meets educational analysis. This week Jason Neiffer (@techsavvyteach) and Wes Fryer (@wfryer) discussed new updates for Google Sheets and Slides for education (G Suite) users, and a helpful (but NSFW) article highlighting the "why" of Internet troll culture as well as many Internet culture personalities and events which could be considered essential for adults wanting to understand teens and their digital

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01:08:40

EdTech Situation Room Episode 60

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

2017/08/10

Welcome to episode 60 of the EdTech Situation Room from August 9, 2017, where technology news meets educational analysis. This week Jason Neiffer (@techsavvyteach) and Wes Fryer (@wfryer) discussed the celebrated death of a podcasting patent, revised password recommendations for users, hacked school Twitter accounts, new STEM-focused badges for Girl Scouts, and summer experiments with BadgeList.com. Additional topics included the recent Google broohaha over a sexist employee-authored memo, a new

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01:04:09

EdTech Situation Room Episode 59

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

2017/08/03

Welcome to episode 59 of the EdTech Situation Room from August 2, 2017, where technology news meets educational analysis. This week Jason Neiffer (@techsavvyteach) and Wes Fryer (@wfryer) discussed Apple's recent favorable quarterly earnings report, Tim Cook's alleged statements to President Trump about Apple manufacturing returning (at least in part) to the USA mainland, the relatively low influence of peer-journaled research in most K-12 educational purchasing decisions, and the implications of

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01:08:00

EdTech Situation Room Episode 58

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

2017/07/20

Welcome to episode 58 of the EdTech Situation Room from July 19, 2017, where technology news meets educational analysis. This week was a special episode dedicated specifically to "Net Neutrality" and the ongoing campaign to oppose corporate telco lobbying for Internet fast lanes. Visit http://edtechsr.com/links to access all referenced links from our show. Jason Neiffer (@techsavvyteach) and Wes Fryer (@wfryer) discussed what net neutrality is and why it's important, how it impacts schools as well

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01:04:12

EdTech Situation Room Episode 57

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

2017/07/13

Welcome to episode 57 of the EdTech Situation Room from July 12, 2017, where technology news meets educational analysis. Visit http://edtechsr.com/links to access all referenced links from our show. This week Jason Neiffer (@techsavvyteach) and Wes Fryer (@wfryer) discussed takeaways and "tired edtech trends" from the 2017 ISTE Conference in San Antonio. They demonstrated the new "Seeing AI" app from Microsoft, which amazingly has been FIRST released for iOS / iPhone / iPad, and discussed several

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01:07:50

EdTech Situation Room Episode 56

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

2017/06/20

Welcome to episode 56 of the EdTech Situation Room from June 19, 2017, where technology news meets educational analysis. Visit http://edtechsr.com/links to access all referenced links from our show. This week Jason Neiffer (@techsavvyteach) and Wes Fryer (@wfryer) were back after several weeks apart, which included some international travel for Jason to Sweden. This week discussion topics included the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling on "a right to social media access" as part of 1st Amendment rights,

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01:04:00

EdTech Situation Room Episode 55

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

2017/06/08

Welcome to episode 55 of the EdTech Situation Room from June 7, 2017, where technology news meets educational analysis. Visit http://edtechsr.com/links to access all referenced links from our show. This week while Jason Neiffer (@techsavvyteach) was out on assignment in Sweden, special guest Dr. Scott McLeod (@mcleod) joined Wes Fryer (@wfryer) to discuss cyberattacks in Qatar and the Middle East, new iPad features announced at Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) in California, and the

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01:04:39

EdTech Situation Room Episode 54

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

2017/06/01

Welcome to episode 54 of the EdTech Situation Room from May 31, 2017, where technology news meets educational analysis. Visit http://edtechsr.com/links to access all referenced links from our show. This week while Jason Neiffer (@techsavvyteach) was out on assignment, returning special guest Miguel Guhlin (@mguhlin) joined Wes Fryer (@wfryer) to discuss cybersecurity and recommended anti-malware computing solutions, They also talked about efforts to salvage Twitter and Internet discourse by web 2.0

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01:04:45

EdTech Situation Room Episode 53

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

2017/05/25

Welcome to episode 53 of the EdTech Situation Room from May 24, 2017, where technology news meets educational analysis. Visit http://edtechsr.com/links to access all referenced links from our show. This week Jason Neiffer (@techsavvyteach) and Wesley Fryer (@wfryer) discussed more takeaways from the recent Google I/O event, genomics and biotechnology news involving CRISPR and DARPA, artificial intelligence advances by Google, and updates to the Surface Pro line by Microsoft amidst forthcoming rumors

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01:01:10

EdTech Situation Room Episode 52

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

2017/05/18

Welcome to episode 52 of the EdTech Situation Room from May 17, 2017, where technology news meets educational analysis. Visit http://edtechsr.com/links to access all referenced links from our show. This week Jason Neiffer (@techsavvyteach), Ben Wilkoff (@bhwilkoff) and Wesley Fryer (@wfryer) discussed an array of exciting announcements from today's Google i/o conference, as well as an interesting but disturbing video from the May 10th Microsoft Build Conference perhaps foreshadowing our "privacy

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