Welcome to episode 134 of the EdTech Situation Room from May 15, 2019, where technology news meets educational analysis. This week Jason Neiffer (@techsavvyteach) and Wesley Fryer (@wfryer) discussed a touching video about Google Lens and literacy from Google I/O and the winners of the NPR student podcasting challenge. Jason provided a review of his new Google Pixel 3A smartphone, and the surprise announced end of “branded accounts” within GSuite for Education was highlighted. Other discussed topics included Facebook’s fight to protect EU elections, post-Christchurch shooting efforts to curtail terrorist content online, and San Francisco ordinances shining light on facial recognition technology use by local police forces. The FCC’s proposed rule change for carriers to block cellular network robocalls, a new website hack compromising eCommerce web forms, and the security threat of IoT devices were subjects rounding out the show. Geeks of the week included the app and website Hopper for travel deal shopping, the “Better Angels” organization seeking to politically depolarize the United States, and ISTE’s new certification program for educators. 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. All shownotes are available on http://edtechSR.com/links.
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- Jason Neiffer (@techsavvyteach) – blog: blog.ncce.org
- Wes Fryer (@wfryer) – blog: speedofcreativity.org
- [VIDEO] Google Lens: Urmila’s Story (from Google I/O 2019 keynote)
- Here Are The Winners Of The NPR Student Podcast Challenge (NPR; 1 May 2019)
- Periods! Why These 8th-Graders Aren’t Afraid To Talk About Them (NPR; 15 May 2019)
- Brief Review: Jason Gets a Pixel 3A
- Why are Brand Accounts being removed from G Suite for Education (GSuite Admin Community post)
- Inside Facebook’s war room: the battle to protect EU elections (Guardian, 5 May 2019)
- Facebook, Microsoft, Google, and other tech companies join governments in pledging to fight terrorist content in wake of Christchurch shooting, but U.S. refuses to join (Business Insider, 15 May 2019)
- San Francisco becomes bans facial recognition software by police (Business Insider, 15 May 2019)
- Ajit Pai proposes new rule that would allow carriers to block robocalls (Verge, 15 May 2019)
- Hackers are collecting payment details, user passwords from 4,600 sites (ZDnet, 12 May 2019)
- IoT devices pose a much bigger cyberthreat than you and I realize (Mashable; 12 May 2019)
- Jason’s Geek of the Week: Hopper App
- Wes’ Geeks of the Week: Better Angels Depolarize America (@BetterAngelsUSA) and ISTE Certification
