Welcome to episode 271 (“Ad-Free Education YouTube”) of the EdTech Situation Room from September 21, 2022, where technology news meets educational analysis. This week Jason Neiffer (@techsavvyteach) and Wesley Fryer (@wfryer) discussed Google news, YouTube news, Mark Zuckerberg and Meta’s financial troubles, Ian Bogost’s case in The Atlantic that “People Aren’t Supposed to Talk This Much,” and a Pentagon’s announced review of “clandestine psychological operations.” Additional topics included Zoom’s new calendar and email tools, iPhone 14 reviews, Canva’s new “visual worksuite,” and bans of AI-generated image content. Geeks of the Week included Visible, Govee smart lights and a reboot of Storychasers. 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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- Rumor: Google may be working on a ‘small-screen’ Pixel, but you probably shouldn’t get your hopes up (9 to 5 Google; 14 September 2022)
- Bye, bye Pixelbook. We will always love you (Chrome Unboxed; 12 September 2022)
- Framework’s new Chromebook is upgradable and customizable (The Verge; 21 September 2022)
- YouTube launches an ad-free video player for education (The Verge; 9 September 2022)
- YouTube creates ad-free player for students, brings courses and quizzes to educational videos (Chrome Unboxed; 13 September 2022)
- H5P (Rich HTML5 Content and Applications)
- Sherlocking (English WikiPedia)
- Mark Zuckerberg Is in Big, Big Trouble (Futurism, 20 Sept 2022)
- People Aren’t Meant to Talk This Much – aka “Fix Facebook By Making It More Like Google+ (Atlantic, Ian Bogost, 22 Oct 2021)
- Pentagon opens sweeping review of clandestine psychological operations (Washington Post, 19 Sept 2022) #GiftLink
- Zoom is reportedly working on calendar and email tools to take on Office and Google (The Verge; 14 September 2022)
- iPhone 14 and 14 Pro review: A picture is worth a thousand dollars (ArsTechnica, 21 Sept 2022)
- Canva joins the big boys with an entirely new collaborative “Visual Worksuite” of tools (Chrome Unboxed; 15 September 2022)
- Getty Images bans AI-generated content over fears of legal challenges (The Verge; 21 September 2022)
- XSplit VCam (Jason’s favorite software-based webcam)
- Jason’s Geek of the Week: Visible
- Wes’ Geeks of the Week: Govee Smart LED Strip Lights WiFi, 50ft – Storychasers reboot
