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EdTech Situation Room Episode 60
EdTech Situation Room by Jason Neiffer and Wes Fryer
English - August 10, 2017 04:32 - 1 hour - 15.8 MB - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingEducation edtech education news technology analysis Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Welcome to episode 60 of the EdTech Situation Room from August 9, 2017, where technology news meets educational analysis. This week Jason Neiffer (@techsavvyteach) and Wes Fryer (@wfryer) discussed the celebrated death of a podcasting patent, revised password recommendations for users, hacked school Twitter accounts, new STEM-focused badges for Girl Scouts, and summer experiments with BadgeList.com. Additional topics included the recent Google broohaha over a sexist employee-authored memo, a new study further debunking the "digital native" myth, digital identity with Yoti, a predicted cyborg evolution for humanity, Jason's new Windows 10S experiment, and a creepy prototype of a self-driving truck. Geeks of the week included The Hackable Podcast by McAfee (from Jason) and "Send by FireFox" (from Wes). Wes also shared a flashback memory from 2010 involving the "FireSheep" extension for FireFox. Check out the podcast shownotes for links to a post about that incident and all the referenced articles / resources from the show. Follow us on Twitter @edtechSR to stay up to date about upcoming shows. Please try to join us LIVE online if you can, normally on Wednesday nights at 10 pm Eastern / 9 pm Central / 8 pm Mountain / 7 pm Pacific.