Welcome to episode 56 of the EdTech Situation Room from June 19, 2017, where technology news meets educational analysis. Visit https://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, and recent announcements from Apple at WWDC including new iPads, the iMac Pro and HomePod speakers. The proposed purchase of Whole Foods by Amazon, the degree to which we can societally prepare for job displacement from automation, and efforts by Amazon and Google to address offensive content as well as terrorist-related media using human moderators were also discussed. An amazing (but apparently true) event in Ethiopia was also discussed, in which the nation shut down the entire Internet for several days to prevent cheating on high school student end-of-year exams. Several surveillance and security related news articles were also addressed. Geeks of the Week included the Podcast App, 60db (by Jason) and two from Wes: SiteSucker for macOS and the Eclipse Megamovie Project. Be sure to follow us on Twitter @edtechSR to stay up to date on upcoming shows! Next week we’ll attempt a live show from ISTE in San Antonio on Monday evening, June 26th.
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- Survey finds 1/3 of people interested in Apple’s HomePod, still more likely to buy Amazon Echo (AppleInsider, 13 June 2017)
- The Supreme Court Just Protected Your Right To Facebook (Wired; 19 June 2017)
- [VIDEO] How many jobs will robots actually take? (2 min, 30 sec – @axios, 5 June 2017)
- Amazon buys Whole Foods for $13.7 billion (ArsTechnica, 16 June 2017)
- John McCain at Senate hearing: We’re living an ‘Orwellian existence’ (CNBC @jacobpramuk, 7 June 2017)
- Activists and Journalists in Mexico Complain of Government Spying (New York Times, 19 June 2017)
- Why I won’t recommend Signal anymore (@VenemaSander, Nov 2016)
- Weapons of Mass Surveillance (BBC World Service, 17 June 2017)
- Revealed: Facebook’s internal rulebook on sex, terrorism and violence (Guardian, 21 May 2017)
- Facebook sics AI on terrorist posts, but humans still do the dirty work (ArsTechnica, 16 June 2017) 18 June 2017)
- Four steps we’re taking today to fight online terror (@Google, 18 June 2017)
- Microsoft releases additional updates 4 older platforms to protect against potential nation-state activity (Microsoft TechNet, 13 June 2017)
- Defence Secretary unable to deny Trident nuclear submarines run on same outdated software hackers exploited to cripple NHS systems [Windows XP] (@montaukian @Independent, 14 May 2017)
- Ethiopia turns off internet nationwide as students sit exams (@guardian, 31 May 2017)
- President Trump wants a ‘sweeping transformation’ of government tech, he says at a White House meeting with execs (Re/code, 19 June 2017)
- Jason’s Geek of the Week: Podcast App, 60db, https://60db.co/
- Wes’ Geeks of the Week: SiteSucker for macOS (make static HTML versions of WordPress & other websites!) via @cogdog and Eclipse Megamovie Project (more info from Newsweek)
[VIDEO] How many jobs will robots actually take? by @axios #edtechSR https://t.co/91Nnr2e28o
— Wesley Fryer 🌎 (@wfryer) June 18, 2017
