Welcome to episode 111 of the EdTech Situation Room from October 17, 2018, where technology news meets educational analysis. This week Wesley Fryer (@wfryer) and special guest Beth Holland (@brholland) discussed the past week’s technology news through an educational lens, as well as a variety of educational issues relating to digital citizenship and digital equity. Co-host Jason Neiffer (@techsavvyteach) was on special assignment. Topics highlighted in this week’s show included algorithmic literacy, privacy, digital equity, digital citizenship, media literacy, digital literacy, Internet safety, digital citizenship week, and more. Other topics included the National Educational Technology Plan, the ongoing code wars between nation states, and the power of social networks / human connections in unlocking opportunity and innovation. The digital divide in rural America, the perils of IoT cameras in our homes, the Media Education Lab’s Mind over Media Project, Imagineering in Storytelling, and geomaps of Lewis and Clark’s journey of discovery rounded out the week’s topics. Check out our shownotes on edtechSR.com/links. Please follow us on Twitter @edtechSR for updates, and join us LIVE on Wednesday nights if you can (normally) at 10 pm Eastern / 9 pm Central / 8 pm Mountain / 7 pm Pacific or 3 am UTC. Note we will be starting earlier than usual occasionally to accommodate guest schedules in upcoming weeks, so please check Twitter for those updates.
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- Beth Holland (@brholland) – blog: brholland.com
- Wes Fryer (@wfryer) – blog: speedofcreativity.org
- The Social Institute: @thesocialinst
- Duck Duck Go (search engine without tracking social profiles)
- FireFox Focus (privacy-focused web browser)
- Friends Don’t Let Friends Use the Edge Web Browser (or Bing for Search) (Wes Fryer, 13 Oct 2018)
- Mind of Media: Analyzing Contemporary Propaganda (by Renee Hobbs @reneehobbs and the Media Education Lab)
- Summer Institute in Digital Literacy by the Media Education Lab
- Free Speech in the Age of Algorithmic Megaphones (Wired, 12 Oct 2018)
- Family Online Safety Institute
- Winning And Losing The Code War – Interview with John P. Carlin (NPR 1A, 16 Oct 2018)
- Searching for Alternative Facts: Analyzing Scriptural Inference in Conservative News Practices (Data & Society, 2018)
- National Educational Technology Plan
- Higher Education Supplement to the National Education Technology Plan
- From Digital Divide to Innovation Divide (EdTech Researcher, 22 Sept 2018)
- About a quarter of rural Americans say access to high-speed internet is a major problem (Pew Research Center, 10 Sept 2018)
- Digital Equity Toolkit from CoSN
- Stanford History Education Group, Evaluating Information Executive Summary
- Facebook’s Portal Camera And The Growing Privacy Concerns Of Bringing Cameras Into Our Homes (Forbes, 8 Oct 2018)
- MLTalks: Experiential Storytelling with Walt Disney Imagineering (4 Oct 2018)
- The Lewis and Clark Trail from Space: NPS Story Map Journal (National Park Service)
- Beth’s Geeks of the Week: iCivics and Mind Over Media Project and Who You Know: Unlocking Innovations That Expand Students’ Networks by Julia Freeland Fisher (@juliaffreeland)
- Wes’ Geeks of the Week: Uni – Magic AI Friend: Relax in a magical world (iOS) and “Dawn of the Code War – America’s Battle Against Russia, China, and the Rising Global Cyber Threat” by John P. Carlin & Garrett M. Graff ( – More #book2read reccs
- Peggy George’s Geek of the Week Tiffany Whitehead (@librarian_tiff), “Fighting Fake News: Media Literacy for Students”
Many thanks to @wfryer for a great conversation on @edtechsr this evening.
Lots of shout-outs tonight to @DrTerriC @reneehobbs @TyeJCampbell @TheJenCarey & @juliaffreeland #medialiteracy https://t.co/2fgpNVNmVo
— Dr. Beth Holland (@brholland) October 18, 2018
