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EdTech Situation Room Podcast by Jason Neiffer and Wes Fryer

EdTech Situation Room Podcast by Jason Neiffer and Wes Fryer

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 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!CC-BY-NC
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  • EdTech Situation Room Ep 369: Dogpile and Dark Arts

    EdTech Situation Room Ep 369: Dogpile and Dark Arts
    Feb 13 2026
    Welcome to episode 369 (“Dogpile and Dark Arts”) of the EdTech Situation Room from February 11, 2026, where technology news meets educational analysis. This week, Dr. Jason Neiffer (aicentrist.com) and Dr. Wesley Fryer (wesfryer.com) discuss the shadowy world of DDoS attacks by archive.today, the manipulation of Wikipedia narratives by bad actors, and the sunsetting of the CIA World Factbook. The conversation shifts to a live demo of Claude CoWork as a local folder-organizing agent, contrasting modern AI "agents" with the "Dogpile" search era of the past. They also explore "Digital Defense Against the Dark Arts" to help students and educators navigate AI-powered scams and misinformation. Our show was live-streamed and archived on YouTube Live via StreamYard.com and auto-archived to YouTube. We are now publishing from Substack too! Subscribe to us with your favorite podcast listening app, or directly on or https://www.youtube.com/@edtechSR. Follow our EdTechSR page on Facebook, mastodon.education/@edtechsr on Mastodon for updates, and join LIVE on Wednesday nights if you can. All show notes are available at edtechSR.com/links.🔗 Links We Discussed* When Connection Is Engineered: Understanding The Anatomy Of An AI-Powered Romance Scam (The White Hatter, 10 Feb 2025)* Pro-Russian Narratives Target Wikipedia, Marking A Dangerous Trend For AI Chatbot Data (United24 Media, 22 Jan 2026)* Wikipedia Might Blacklist Archive.Today After Site Maintainer DDoSed A Blog (Ars Technica, 10 Feb 2026)* Archive.today Is Directing A DDOS Attack Against My Blog (Gyrovague, 01 Feb 2026)* Claude Cowork Available on Windows* Why Wikimedia Belongs In Education (Wikimedia UK, 06 Feb 2026)* The CIA World Factbook is dead. Here’s how I came to love it (NPR, 7 Feb 2026)* Apple News* Digital Defense Against the Dark Arts (by Wes)* AI Arena (formerly LM Arena)* CoWork by Claude* Jason’s Geek of the Week: OpenWork* Wes’ Geeks of the Week: Image prompt with Claude -> Image generate with Gemini - Super Bowl 2026 Ads - Ai Makes Far Side Cartoons🧭 Links We Did NOT Discuss* AI’s Apocalyptic Jobs Prophecy Is About To Become Reality (The Telegraph, 05 Feb 2026)* Anthropic Insiders Afraid They’ve Crossed A Line (Futurism, 07 Feb 2026)* Grok Maker XAI Loses Another Co-Founder (Ars Technica, 11 Feb 2026)* OpenAI Releases New Deep Research Model* State Department To Purge Pre-Trump Social Media Posts (NPR, 07 Feb 2026)* Ghost: Blogs and newsletters on the Fediverse (Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse)* Google Recovers Deleted Nest Video In High-Profile Abduction Case (Ars Technica, 10 Feb 2026)* Upgraded Google Safety Tools Can Now Find And Remove More Of Your Personal Info (Ars Technica, 10 Feb 2026)* Google Makes It Easier To Remove Your Personal Data From Search (Ars Technica, 26 Feb 2025)Episode 369 is also available on YouTube in two formats: Portrait mode optimized for mobile phones, and Landscape mode optimized for laptop / desktop computers! This Substack version (syndicated to other podcasting platforms) was edited using Descript.com to remove “filler words!” Get full access to EdTech Situation Room Podcast at edtechsr.substack.com/subscribe
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    1 Std. und 2 Min.
  • EdTechSR Episode 368: The OpenClaw Warning

    EdTechSR Episode 368: The OpenClaw Warning
    Feb 5 2026
    Welcome to episode 368 (“The OpenClaw Warning”) of the EdTech Situation Room from February 4, 2026, where technology news meets educational analysis. This week, Dr. Jason Neiffer (aicentrist.com) and Dr. Wesley Fryer (wesfryer.com) dive into the burgeoning world of agentic AI, highlighting the experimental "OpenClaw" tool while issuing a stark warning about the security risks inherent in autonomous AI agents. They also examine the precarious state of local journalism and its vital role in community cohesion. The discussion features a live look at the powerful new integration of Google's NotebookLM into Gemini, showcasing how educators can leverage curated "knowledge oracles" to generate source-grounded instructional materials. Additional topics include the intersection of gaming culture and mainstream media literacy via the Angry Planet podcast and a passionate defense of the humanities and competitive debate as essential skills for the AI era. Our show was live-streamed and archived on YouTube Live via StreamYard.com and auto-archived to YouTube. We are now publishing from Substack too! Subscribe to us with your favorite podcast listening app, or directly on or www.youtube.com/@edtechSR. Follow our EdTechSR page on Facebook, mastodon.education/@edtechsr on Mastodon for updates, and join LIVE on Wednesday nights if you can. All show notes are available at edtechSR.com/links.🔗 Links We Discussed* [PODCAST] Online Culture Is the Whole Culture (Angry Planet, 30 Jan 2026)* “Conspiracies and Culture Wars” Media Literacy Inquiry Project (Wes Fryer)* Collar cams offer a bear’s eye view into the lives of grizzlies on Alaska’s desolate North Slope (AP, 2 Feb 2026)Local TV and radio at a crossroads (Peter Vogel, The BC Catholic, 28 Jan 2026)* Podcast393: Reflections on UnPlug’d 2012 with David Truss & Gail Lovely https://www.speedofcreativity.org/2012/08/13/podcast393-reflections-on-unplugd-2012-with-david-truss-gail-lovely/* ds106 radio* Powell Tribune (Wyoming) * Daily Interlake News (Montana, via Peggy George)* kgez.com (Kalispell, MT - via Peggy George)* KMAN Radio (Manhattan, Kansas)* Day of AI (a program developed at MIT RAISE in partnership with the i2 Learning Foundation)* [VIDEO] Watch: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei From World Economic Forum | WSJ (32 min)* Hard Fork [PODCAST] Can You Teach Claude to be ‘Good’? | Meet Anthropic Philosopher Amanda Askell (23 Jan 2026)* Don’t Install OpenClaw. But Keep a Close Eye on It. (Jason @ Field Notes at the FLL; 2 February 2026)* The buzz over AI agents (NPR Here and Now; 2 February 2026)* Moltbook is the newest social media platform — but it’s just for AI bots (NPR ATC; 4 February 2026)* MoltBook.com (AI agent social network)* Take your notebooks further by adding NotebookLM as a source in the Gemini app (Google Workspace Updates; 27 January 2026)* Jason’s Geek of the Week: Meetily (Local AI Meeting Tool)* Wes’ Geeks of the Week:: 2026 Frost Forward Online Conference Registration - [PODCAST] AI in Education: Jeffrey Riley on AI Literacy, Teachers, and the Future of Learning (The Teacher’s Forum, David Harris, 3 Feb 2026) - Google Account 3rd Party App Authorizations🧭 Links We Did NOT Discuss* Anthropic and Teach For All launch global AI training initiative for educators (Anthropic Blog, 21 Jan 2026)* Claude for Education* Gem and NotebookLM Workflow (Miguel Guhlin, 1 Feb 2026)* Claude is a space to think (Anthropic blog, 4 Feb 2026)* Customize Cowork with plugins (Claude Blog; 30 January 2026)* Google’s Gemini app has surpassed 750M monthly active users (TechCrunch; 4 February 2026)* The new era of browsing: Putting Gemini to work in Chrome (The Keyword from Google)* Rice University students create ICE tracker as hundreds protest in Houston (The Center Square, 31 Jan 2026)Episode 368 is also available on YouTube in two formats: Portrait mode optimized for mobile phones, and Landscape mode optimized for laptop / desktop computers! This Substack version (syndicated to other podcasting platforms) was edited using Descript.com to remove “filler words!” Get full access to EdTech Situation Room Podcast at edtechsr.substack.com/subscribe
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    1 Std. und 11 Min.
  • EdTechSR Episode 367: Vibe Coding with Claude

    EdTechSR Episode 367: Vibe Coding with Claude
    Jan 23 2026
    Welcome to episode 367 (“Vibe Coding With Claude”) of the EdTech Situation Room from January 21, 2026, where technology news meets educational analysis. This week, Dr. Jason Neiffer (aicentrist.com) and Dr. Wesley Fryer (wesfryer.com) discuss the transformative power of “vibe coding,” with Wes sharing his experience using Claude Code to build a sophisticated 1,400-line PHP project for personal news automation. Jason demonstrates a powerful new workflow that integrates NotebookLM sources directly into Gemini to create pedagogically-informed instructional texts. The duo also explores Anthropic’s newly released AI Constitution , Google’s rollout of Personal Intelligence for Gmail and Drive , and reflections from the FETC conference on the urgent need for structured AI professional development for educators. Our show was live-streamed and archived on YouTube Live via StreamYard.com and auto-archived to YouTube. We are now publishing from Substack too! Subscribe to us with your favorite podcast listening app, or directly on or www.youtube.com/@edtechSR. Follow our EdTechSR page on Facebook, mastodon.education/@edtechsr on Mastodon for updates, and join LIVE on Wednesday nights if you can. All show notes are available at edtechSR.com/links.🔗 Links We Discussed* Episode 9: From hidden data to insight: the power of vibecoding (by NotebookLM, Digital Digging by Hank Van Ess, 17 Jan 2026)* Paywall article: Using AI to find hidden data sources (Digital Digging by Hank Van Ess, 17 Jan 2026)* Claude Code for writers (Platformer, Casey Newton, 15 Jan 2026)* Move Over, ChatGPT (Atlantic, 14 Jan 2026)* Claude’s new constitution (Anthropic, 21 January 2026)* Gemini introduces Personal Intelligence (14 January 2026)* mermaid.ai (“Build complex visuals from text and data in seconds”)* Jason’s Geek of the Week: Kortex Chrome PLugin* Wes’ Geek of the Week: news.wesfryer.com🧭 Links We Did NOT Discuss* A new direction for students in an AI world: Prosper, prepare, protect (Brookings, 17 Jan 2026)* Comic-Con Bans AI Art After Artist Pushback (404 Media; 21 January 2026)* OpenAI says its data centers will pay for their own energy and limit water usage (The Verge; 21 January 2026)* Google Releases Data Tables for NotebookLM (NotebookLM on Twitter/X, 14 Jan 2026)* Alaska’s court system built an AI chatbot. It didn’t go smoothly. (NBC News, 3 Jan 2026)* Amazon’s Ring to partner with Flock, a network of AI cameras used by ICE, feds, and police (TechCrunch, 15 Oct 2025)* Hacker Dressed As Pink Power Ranger Dismantles Racist Websites Live on Stage (PC Magazine, 6 Jan 2026)* Iran’s Internet Shutdown Mistake Exposes Threats To U.S. And Israel (Forbes, 17 Jan 2026)* Grok Is Generating Sexual Content Far More Graphic Than What’s on X (Wired, 7 Jan 2026)* When an Ad Triggers a Full Account Crisis (Lucy Gray, 20 Jan 2026)* How Wikipedia Will Survive in the Age of AI (With Wikipedia’s CTO Selena Deckelmann) (404 Media, 20 Jan 2026)Episode 367 is also available on YouTube in two formats: Portrait mode optimized for mobile phones, and Landscape mode optimized for laptop / desktop computers! Get full access to EdTech Situation Room Podcast at edtechsr.substack.com/subscribe
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    1 Std. und 7 Min.
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