EdTech Situation Room Episode 24

Welcome to episode 24 of the EdTech Situation Room from October 5, 2016, where technology news meets educational analysis. This week Jason Neiffer (@techsavvyteach) and Wesley Fryer (@wfryer) discussed the challenges of teaching civics in a heated election season and the affordances of social media during election debates. They also discussed some highlights from Google's Pixel Phone event this week, including the Pixel phone, new wifi routers, a new Google Home device, and the role of AI (artificial intelligence) in Google's corporate products and services evolution. The rumor of an October 27th MacBook laptop refresh was also discussed, along with some iPhone/Android phone comparisons. Wes shared an endorsement for the new movie "Snowden" and gave a shout out to ProPublica's new article series, "BREAKING THE BLACK BOX: What Facebook Knows About You." Jason and Wes also discussed their ISTE 2017 submitted proposal for a session titled, "Digital Citizenship in Our Surveillance State." Geeks of the week included the importance of ordering OEM certified computer chargers and the free iOS composition apps, "MusiQuest – Music & Beat Maker" and "Sketch-a-Song Kids." Check out past episode shownotes on http://edtechsr.com/links and be sure to follow @edtechSR for updates on Twitter http://twitter.com/edtechsr as well as on Facebook. If you listen to the show, please submit our listener survey using the shortened link http://wfryer.me/edtechsr which forwards to a Google Form. Your feedback and suggestions on the show are appreciated!