Welcome to episode 251 (“Ukraine War News”) of the EdTech Situation Room from March 9, 2022, where technology news meets educational analysis. This week Jason Neiffer (@techsavvyteach) and Wesley Fryer (@wfryer) discussed announcements at the March 8th Apple Event, technology related news from the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and a few Google updates. Check out our shownotes for links to all the articles we discussed, and subscribe to our Substack to receive all the links we discussed and also didn’t have time to talk about in this week’s show in your email inbox! Our show was live streamed and archived simultaneously on YouTube Live as well as our Facebook Live page via StreamYard.com, and compressed to a smaller video version (about 100MB) on AmazonS3 using Handbrake software. Please follow us on Twitter @edtechSR for updates, and join us LIVE on Wednesday nights (normally) if you can at 10 pm Eastern / 9 pm Central / 8 pm Mountain / 7 pm Pacific or 3 am UTC. All shownotes are available on http://edtechSR.com/links. Stay savvy and safe!
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- Everything announced at the Apple 2022 ‘Peek Performance’ event (Mashable; 8 March 2022)
- The 27-inch iMac has been discontinued (The Verge; 8 March 2022)
- Apple’s new strategy is to give — not tell — users what they want (The Verge; 9 March 2022)
- AirTag scare stories may have actually done more good than harm (9 to 5 Mac; 23 February 2022)
- Several Western news organizations suspend operations in Russia (NY Times, 4 March 2022)
- Elon Musk: “High” probability of Russian attacks on Starlink in Ukraine (ArsTechnica, 5 March 2022)
- The war in Ukraine is keeping Chinese social media censors busy (ArsTechnica, 6 March 2022)
- Google shares grand vision of tablets surpassing laptop sales, ‘tablet-first’ Android apps, more (9 to 5 Google; 9 March 2022)
- Hands-on with the ‘new Gmail view’ web redesign: Sidebar woes, chat bubble default, custom themes (9 to 5 Google; 2 March 2022)
- Chromebook owners will get to disable automatic Chrome OS updates. YES! (About Chromebooks; 3 March 2022)
- Wes’ Geek of the Week: Democracy Report 2022
- Jason’s Geek of the Week: mrchromebox.tech
