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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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00:52:41

EdTech Situation Room Episode 20

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

2016/08/25

Welcome to episode 20 of the EdTech Situation Room from August 24, 2016, where technology news meets educational analysis. This week Jason Neiffer (@techsavvyteach) and Wesley Fryer (@wfryer) discussed the ascendency of smartphones as the primary media consumptive screen in U.S. households, NASA's recent announcement to make all its research openly accessible, Google's decision to discontinue Chrome apps for Mac and Windows, and Verizon's continuing metamorphosis from a "baby bell" telco to a global

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00:58:34

EdTech Situation Room Episode 19

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

2016/08/18

Welcome to episode 19 of the EdTech Situation Room from August 17, 2016, where technology news meets educational analysis. This week Jason Neiffer (@techsavvyteach) and Wesley Fryer (@wfryer) discussed a heartwarming story from the Rio Olympics, the role (or non-role) of videoconferencing and live streaming in many K12 classrooms, the shutdown of Blab and the migration of Google Hangouts from Google+ to YouTube Live. Additional topics included the DMCA and "safe harbor" in the recording industry's

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01:01:35

EdTech Situation Room Episode 18

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

2016/08/04

Welcome to episode 18 of the EdTech Situation Room from August 3, 2016, where technology news meets educational analysis. This week Jason Neiffer (@techsavvyteach) and Wesley Fryer (@wfryer) discussed the impacts of cell phone availability for refugees in Greece, security and a new hack announced at the Black Hat Conference, millenial preferences for Microsoft Word over Google Docs for individual projects, the present and future of eBooks, the DNA revolution and DIY genomics. Geeks of the week

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00:58:01

EdTech Situation Room Episode 17

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

2016/07/28

Welcome to episode 17 of the EdTech Situation Room from July 27, 2016, where technology news meets educational analysis. This week Jason Neiffer (@techsavvyteach) and Wesley Fryer (@wfryer) discussed the implications of Verizon's announced purchase of Yahoo, the continued viral phenomenon of Pokemon Go, recent "billions records" of Apple and Facebook, and SpaceX's successful launch of a new door for the International Space Station. Geeks of the week included the ViewMaster VR Headset, the 360 degree

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01:02:44

EdTech Situation Room Episode 16

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

2016/07/14

Welcome to episode 16 of the EdTech Situation Room from July 13, 2016, where technology news meets educational analysis. This week Jason Neiffer (@techsavvyteach) and Wesley Fryer (@wfryer) discussed new Android phone security hacks, the viral phenomenon of Pokemon Go, and signs of the continuing disruptive upheaval of worldwide video distribution. We used a Google Hangout this week instead of Blab, but had some bandwidth issues which created some audio skips and interruptions in our webcast and

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01:02:11

EdTech Situation Room Episode 15

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

2016/06/30

Welcome to episode 15 of the EdTech Situation Room from June 28, 2016, where technology news meets educational analysis. This week Jason Neiffer (@techsavvyteach) and Wesley Fryer (@wfryer) were together in person at the ISTE Conference in Denver, Colorado! Following the day 2 keynote, they recorded a conversation about some of the exciting new announcements by Google, Amazon, and other companies during ISTE. Check out the podcast shownotes for links to referenced articles, which are also available

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01:01:40

EdTech Situation Room Episode 14

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

2016/06/23

Welcome to episode 14 of the EdTech Situation Room from June 22, 2016, where technology news meets educational analysis. This week Jason Neiffer (@techsavvyteach) and Wesley Fryer (@wfryer) shared their best advice for educators attending the 2016 ISTE (International Society of Technology in Education) conference in Denver, Colorado. They also discussed important announcements from Apple's recent Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) and what those may portend for teachers and schools. Additional

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01:01:06

EdTech Situation Room Episode 13

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

2016/06/09

Welcome to episode 13 of the EdTech Situation Room from June 8, 2016, where technology news meets educational analysis. This week Jason Neiffer (@techsavvyteach) and Wesley Fryer (@wfryer) discussed new research on teen media multitasking and cognition, project management software options including a new offering from Microsoft, more rumors of Apple's WWDC event next week, continuing security / password hacks in the news and good advice for protecting your own web accounts, and more. Geeks of the

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00:59:46

EdTech Situation Room Episode 12

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

2016/06/03

Welcome to episode 12 of the EdTech Situation Room from June 1, 2016, where technology news meets educational analysis. This weekJason Neiffer (@techsavvyteach) and Wesley Fryer (@wfryer) discussed spatial computing, an amazing discovery in Kazakhstan from 2015 by a Google Earth user, and the way app designers often intentionally create digital addictions using "intermittent variable rewards" like slot machines in casinos. They also offered predications for Apple announcements at the upcoming WWDC

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01:00:50

EdTech Situation Room Episode 11

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

2016/05/27

Welcome to episode 11 of the EdTech Situation Room from May 4, 2016, where technology news meets educational analysis. We've been off for a few weeks and we're glad to be back! This week Jason Neiffer (@techsavvyteach) and Wesley Fryer (@wfryer) discussed the evolving role of digital assistants powered by artificial intelligence, Google's announcement that the Google Play Store is coming to Chrome OS, and the continuing evolution of machine learning. Other discussion topics included learning

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00:57:45

EdTech Situation Room Episode 10

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

2016/05/05

Welcome to episode 10 of the EdTech Situation Room from May 4, 2016, where technology news meets educational analysis. This week Jason Neiffer (@techsavvyteach) and Wesley Fryer (@wfryer) discussed the benefits of using Google Slides for presentation sharing, new updates to Google Classroom, desired updates for Google Apps for Education tools, the relation of maturing genomics & robotics industries to STEM education, the slow adoption dynamics of wearable technologies in the consumer market, and the

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01:04:29

EdTech Situation Room Episode 9

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

2016/04/28

Welcome to episode 9 of the EdTech Situation Room from April 27, 2016, where technology news meets educational analysis. This week Jason Neiffer (@techsavvyteach) and Wesley Fryer (@wfryer) discussed artificial intelligence, social media content moderation, cell phone hacking, open educational resources, and the demise of desktop PCs - and how each of these newsworthy developments relate to classrooms and schools. Jason shared The FiveThirtyEight Blog as his Geek of the Week, Wes shared Nuzzel and

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01:03:31

EdTech Situation Room Episode 8

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

2016/04/19

where technology news meets educational analysis

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00:58:34

EdTech Situation Room Episode 7

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

2016/04/07

Welcome to episode 7 of the EdTech Situation Room from April 6, 2016, where technology news meets educational analysis. This week Jason Neiffer (@techsavvyteach) faced some road warrior bandwidth blues, so the show went on with Jon Samuelson (@jonsamuelson) joining Wesley Fryer (@wfryer) to catch up on the heroic Oregon trek and adventure of Jon's family in past year along with some of the past week's technology news. Those topics included the FBI's decision to drop their lawsuit against Apple over

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01:01:02

EdTech Situation Room Episode 6

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

2016/03/29

Welcome to Episode 6 of the EdTech Situation Room, the weekly webshow and podcast where technology news meets educational analysis! This week co-hosts Jason Neiffer (@techsavvyteach) and Wes Fryer (@wfryer) discuss Apple's March 21st event and several other news items. These include the FBI/Apple faceoff over iPhone encryption, Google's AI Play Go, and Blendle's idea for saving journalism on the web.

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00:59:51

EdTech Situation Room Episode 5

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

2016/03/03

Welcome to Episode 5 of the EdTech Situation Room, the weekly webshow and podcast where technology news meets educational analysis! This week we had a lively discussion with special guest Ben Wilkoff (@bhwilkoff) along with show hosts Jason Neiffer (@techsavvyteach) and Wes Fryer (@wfryer). Our conversations touched on the articles "Google Eliminates Right-Side Adds" (discussing the ascendency of mobile computing as well as the implications of our "you are the product" digital social environment,)

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01:00:08

EdTech Situation Room Episode 4

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

2016/02/25

Episode 4 of of our Blab.im powered weekly podcast featured insightful commentary by special guest Mike Agostinelli (@mikegusto), as well as regular hosts Jason Neiffer (@techsavvyteach) and Wes Fryer (@wfryer). Mike and Jason joined from the NCCE Conference in Seattle, Washington, and had better connectivity during the show than Wes did. Despite bandwidth challenges spiking in central Oklahoma, the show conversations included a refreshingly wide range of topics. These included the Michelle Obama

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00:57:59

EdTech Situation Room Episode 3

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

2016/02/11

We were joined for episode 3 of our Blab.im powered weekly podcast by educational technology guru and noted futurist Miguel Guhlin (@mguhlin) of San Antonio, Texas! Hosts Jason Neiffer (@techsavvyteach) and Wes Fryer (@wfryer) met in "The EdTech Situation Room" on February 10, 2016, and discussed current news and trends in educational technology with Miguel. In this week's show we discussed our responses to the economic and digital hegemony of Google and Apple (actually we didn't use those words,

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01:05:52

EdTech Situation Room Episode 2

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

2016/02/04

Our second episode and first experience on Blab.im. We think Blab rocks! Hosts Jason Neiffer (@techsavvyteach) and Wes Fryer (@wfryer) met in "The EdTech Situation Room" on February 3, 2016, and discussed current news and trends in educational technology. In this week's show we discussed President Obama's "Computer Science for All" initiative, Apple's perceived need to innovate more with core iOS apps, an updated rehash on the implications of Apple's declining iPad sales, a video highlighting the

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01:08:10

EdTech Situation Room Episode 1

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

2016/01/28

Our first official show! Hosts Jason Neiffer (@techsavvyteach) and Wes Fryer (@wfryer) met in "The EdTech Situation Room" on January 27, 2016, and discussed current news and trends in educational technology. Building on the fun of "The EdTech Year in Review" podcasts from 2014 and 2015, The EdTech Situation Room is a regular web show and podcast Jason and Wes are starting in 2016. Your feedback and input is welcomed! In future episodes we will be inviting guests to join us. In this show we discussed

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