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 study further debunking the “digital native” myth, digital identity with Yoti, a predicted cyborg evolution for humanity, Jason’s new Windows 10S experiment, and a creepy prototype of a self-driving truck. Geeks of the week included The Hackable Podcast by McAfee (from Jason) and “Send by FireFox” (from Wes). Wes also shared a flashback memory from 2010 involving the “FireSheep” extension for FireFox. Check out the podcast shownotes for links to a post about that incident and all the referenced articles / resources from the show. Follow us on Twitter @edtechSR to stay up to date about upcoming shows. Please try to join us LIVE online if you can, normally on Wednesday nights at 10 pm Eastern / 9 pm Central / 8 pm Mountain / 7 pm Pacific.
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- “Podcasting patent” is totally dead, appeals court rules (ArsTechnica, 7 Aug 2017)
- Girl Scouts add new STEM badges in robotics, coding, and racecar design (The Verge, 25 July 2017)
- Olin College (“A New Kind of Engineering College”)
- Create, Make and Learn Institute
- Harvey Mudd College
- Hacking of school district’s Twitter account is cautionary tale (TC Palm, 4 Aug 2017)
- The Man Who Wrote Those Password Rules Has a New Tip: N3v$r M1^d! (Wall Street Journal, 7 August 2017)
- Windows 10 S Now Installable on “existing Windows 10 education devices” How to download and install Windows 10 S (Beta News, 1 August 2017)
- Test Windows 10 S on existing Windows 10 education devices (Windows IT Center, 4 August 2017)
- The “Cobra Effect” that is disabling paste on password fields (May 2014, @troyhunt)
- This self-driving truck has no room for a human driver — literally (@andyjayhawk @verge, 5 July 2017)
- The digital native is a myth (Nature, 25 July 2017)
- Humans ‘will become God-like cyborgs within 200 years (Telegraph, 7 Aug 2017)
- Yoti Is Your Digital Identity (Great backstory on The Committed Podcast Ep 180)
- Google Controversy: Damore Went From Intern to Pariah in Google Tenure Ended by Memo (Bloomberg, 8 Aug 2017)
- So, about this Googler’s manifesto. (5 Aug 2017, @yonatanzunger)
- Security Now Podcast
- Pokemon Go oh no no no, we’re not reading your email, says gamemaker (7/2016, The Register)
- Catfishing (WikiPedia)
- Firesheep should get your ATTENTION: Open Public Wifi Dangers are REAL (Nov 2010, Wes Fryer)
- Jason’s Geek of the Week: The Hackable Podcast by McAfee
- Wes’ Geek of the Week: Send by FireFox – Private, Encrypted File Sharing (backstory)
