Welcome to episode 265 (“Starlink Mobile Connectivity”) of the EdTech Situation Room from July 20, 2022, where technology news meets educational analysis. This week Jason Neiffer (@techsavvyteach) and Wesley Fryer (@wfryer) discussed the FCC’s authorization of Starlink’s system to be used in moving vehicles, along with other connectivity related articles. Hoopla around the TikTok “blackout challenge,” calls for TikTok to preserve war crimes videos in Ukraine, advertisements on Netflix, and declining Netflix subscriptions were also highlighted articles and topics. Geeks of the Week included the upcoming Adobe Digital Summit and “the (Mis)Information Game, a social-media simulation.” 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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- The FCC authorizes SpaceX’s Starlink system to be used on vehicles in motion (The Verge; 30 June 2022)
- T-Mobile 5G home internet reaches 5 million new addresses in the middle of the country (The Verge; 30 June 2022)
- The TikTok ‘blackout challenge’ has now allegedly killed seven kids (The Verge; 7 July 2022)
- TikTok resists calls to preserve Ukraine content for war crime investigations (Ars Technica, 15 Jul 2022)
- TikTok can’t stop users from doxxing the Supreme Court (ArsTechnica, 29 Jun 2022)
- Netflix’s ad-supported tier won’t have everything at launch (The Verge; 19 July 2022)
- Netflix subscriber count in the US and Canada dropped by 1.3 million over the last three months (The Verge; 19 July 2022)
- Here’s what Netflix execs think about the Netflix problem (Vox; 20 July 2022)
- Discovering Useful Ideas (a workshop by Wes)
- Wes’ Twitter Lists
- Jason’s Twitter Lists
- Jason’s Geek of the Week: Adobe Digital Summit
- Wes’ Geek of the Week: the (Mis)Information Game, a social-media simulation (via @/UlliEcker)
