Welcome to Episode 6 of the EdTech Situation Room, the almost-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 “special 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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- Jason Neiffer (@techsavvyteach)
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- The iPhone just got its first real price cut (Business Insider, 21 March 2016)
- FBI backs off Apple, finds another way into iPhone 5c (Engadget, 21 March 2016)
- The Sadness and Beauty of Watching Google’s AI Play Go (Wired, 3-11-16)
- Tales of Disrupted Industries: Blendle Wants to Sell You Journalism on the Web, One Story at a Time (Re-Code, 3-23-16)
- Wes’ Geeks of the Week: Kiwi for Gmail (h/t to ) & AirParrot for Chrome
- Jason’s Geek of the Week: Neverware CloudReady http://www.neverware.com
- Audio Bumper for the audio podcast of this show: “News Theme” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
iReading: The Sadness & Beauty of Watching Google's AI Play Go https://t.co/9zJWDuoOoh by @CadeMetz via @kylemathews @nuzzel #edtechSR #AI
— Wesley Fryer, Ph.D. (@wfryer) March 12, 2016