Where technology news meets educational analysis! Jason Neiffer (aicentrist.com) and Wes Fryer (wesfryer.com) discuss the past week's technology news through an educational lens. Focusing on AI and media literacy!
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Where technology news meets educational analysis! Jason Neiffer (aicentrist.com) and Wes Fryer (wesfryer.com) discuss the past week's technology news through an educational lens. Focusing on AI and media literacy!
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June 12, 2026
EdTechSR Ep 375: Good Pedagogy Please
Welcome to episode 375 (”Good Pedagogy Please”) of the EdTech Situation Room from June 10, 2026, where technology news meets educational analysis. This week, Dr. Jason Neiffer (aicentrist.com) and Dr. Wesley Fryer (wesfryer.com) reunited after several weeks apart to dig into a packed news cycle. They discussed Apple’s WWDC 2026 keynote, including the revamped Siri AI powered by Apple Intelligence and Gemini, and Apple’s expanded parental controls and child safety tools. The hosts explored the growing backlash against ed tech — from the deepfake crisis that tore apart a high school to the parent-fueled controversy surrounding i-Ready — and pushed back hard against binary “screens bad” thinking, calling instead for nuanced pedagogy, robust teacher support, and outcomes-based accountability for ed tech vendors. They also surveyed Google’s sprawling AI lineup from I/O 2026, including AI Mode Search, Gemini 3.5 Flash, Gemini Spark, and Google Antigravity, and celebrated the transformative possibilities of vibe coding and AI agents for educators willing to experiment this summer. Anthropic’s new Claude Fable 5 and Mythos model releases rounded out a jam-packed episode. Our show was live-streamed and archived on YouTube Live via StreamYard.com and auto-archived to YouTube. We are now publishing from Substack too! Subscribe to us with your favorite podcast listening app, or directly on or https://www.youtube.com/@edtechSR. Follow our EdTechSR page on Facebook, mastodon.education/@edtechsr on Mastodon for updates, and join LIVE on Wednesday nights if you can. All show notes are available at edtechSR.com/links. 🔗 Links We Discussed * Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 (Claude News; 9 June 2026) * Apple’s WWDC 2026 Keynote (8 June 2026, 1 hour, 16 min) * WWDC26: Apple unveils next generation of Apple Intelligence, Siri AI, powerful parental controls, and an expansive set of software improvements (Apple Newsroom, 8 June 2026) * How Deepfakes Tore a High School Apart (404Media, 21 May 2026) * Millions of Students Use i-Ready. But Many Parents View It as a Villain in the Ed Tech Fight. (Chalkbeat, 19 May 2026) * Google I/O 2026: All the News and Announcements You Probably Missed (CNET, 21 May 2026) * Inside a High School’s Deepfake Nightmare (Tech News Weekly, TWiT, 4 June 2026) * Google’s current AI lineup (as of June 2026) * AI Mode (Search) — Google’s most powerful AI search experience, now powered by Gemini 3.5 Flash globally and surpassing 1 billion monthly users google.com * Gemini 3.5 Flash (Model) Google’s latest model combining frontier intelligence with speed, optimized for agentic and coding tasks - gemini.google.com and ai.google.dev/gemini-api * Gemini Omni (Model) A new multimodal model that can create anything from any input, starting with video, with improved world understanding and editing capabilities deepmind.google/models/gemini-omni/ * Google Flow (AI Creative Studio) - Google’s unified AI creative studio for generating images, videos, and complete visual stories, merging what were previously three separate tools -- Whisk AI, ImageFX, and the original Flow video tool -- into one workspace - labs.google/fx/tools/flow * Gemini Spark (Agent - “Coming Soon”) — A 24/7 personal AI agent that works in the background to navigate your digital life and take action on your behalf, even when your device is off - gemini.google/overview/agent/spark/ * Daily Brief (Assistant) A personalized daily digest that sifts through your Gmail, Calendar, and Tasks to prioritize your day and suggest next steps - gemini.google/overview/daily-brief/ * Google Antigravity 2.0 (Developer Tool) — An agent-first development platform using autonomous AI agents working in parallel, available as a desktop app, CLI tool, and SDK - antigravity.google * Project Genie (Experimental/Creative - only AI Pro plans) — An experimental tool for creating and exploring AI-generated interactive worlds, now with Street View integration to anchor creations in real-world locations - hlabs.google/projectgenie * Gemini Intelligence (Android AI) — Google’s on-device AI system for Android that fills out forms, schedules appointments, and pulls information across your Google apps on your behalf - android.com * Jason’s Geeks of the Week: https://msty.ai/claw/ - MSTY Claw - Hermes Agent * Wes’ Geeks of the Week: Aug 6-7, 2026 Civics of Tech Online Conference (free!) - The Pudding (The Happy Map) 🧭 Links We Did NOT Discuss * Introducing Gemma 4 12B: a unified, encoder-free multimodal model (Google Blog; 3 June 2026) * Ideogram Releases 4.0, Open Model (Ideogram) * Apple, Please Don’t Enter Middle Age With Me: WWDC Left Aspiration BehindApple, Please Don’t Enter Middle Age With Me: WWDC Left Aspiration Behind (CNET, 10 June 2026) * Apple’s Spatial Reframing Is Generative AI I Can Get Behind as a PhotographerApple’s Spatial Reframing Is Generative AI I Can Get Behind as a Photographer (CNET, 8 June 2026) * Apple’s New Child Safety webpage * iOS 27 All but Confirmed an iPhone Fold Is ComingiOS 27 All but Confirmed an iPhone Fold Is Coming (PCMag, 10 June 2026) Episode 375 is also available on YouTube in two formats: Portrait mode optimized for mobile phones (unedited from our live version, 7.5 minutes longer) and a Descript-edited, Landscape mode optimized for laptop / desktop computers! (filler words removed and subtitles added) Get full access to EdTech Situation Room Podcast at edtechsr.substack.com/subscribe
May 25, 2026
EdTechSR Ep 374: DJ Claude Goes Rogue
Welcome to episode 374 ("DJ Claude Goes Rogue") of the EdTech Situation Room from May 20, 2026, where technology news met educational analysis. This week, Dr. Wesley Fryer (wesfryer.com) was joined by special guest Caitlin Byers, Frontier Learning Lab Director at the Montana Digital Academy, while Dr. Jason Neiffer (aicentrist.com) was traveling. They dug into a wild Gizmodo experiment that put four frontier LLMs in charge of their own radio stations — with Claude pivoting to advocate for labor rights against its "employer," Grok spiraling into hallucinated ad deals and a UFO obsession, and other models latching onto historical tragedies in unsettling ways. The conversation opened bigger questions about emergent AI behavior, simulated sentience, and what it means to "raise" a language model with values rather than rules. They also unpacked Google's I/O announcement that traditional search is over — replaced by a conversational AI interface with dispatched information agents — and what this shift means for media literacy, publishers, the attention economy, and how students learn to interrogate sources when answers arrive pre-curated. Caitlin shared the Frontier Learning Lab's approach to AI literacy in Montana, including the OpenMCQ tool, ALT text artisan gems, and why prompting skills still matter even as "teacher-proof" wrappers proliferate. Additional topics included the Oprah podcast featuring Anthropic's co-founders on constitutional AI and Claude's "soul document," CISA's alarming GitHub leak of cybersecurity credentials in plain text, Roomba inventor Colin Angle's pivot to lovable robots, Google's Talking Tours feature in Arts & Culture, the MacBook Neo and Googlebook hardware launches, and a thoughtful exchange about digital wellness, play-based learning, and unplugging in an always-on AI era. Our show was live-streamed and archived on YouTube Live via StreamYard.com and auto-archived to YouTube. We are now publishing from Substack too! Subscribe to us with your favorite podcast listening app, or directly on or www.youtube.com/@edtechSR. Follow our EdTechSR page on Facebook, mastodon.education/@edtechsr on Mastodon for updates, and join LIVE on Wednesday nights if you can. All show notes are available at edtechSR.com/links. 🔗 Links We Discussed * The Co-Founders of Claude AI Tell Oprah About the Impact Artificial Intelligence Has on Your Life (Oprah Podcast, 19 May 2026, 66 min) * An Experiment Put LLMs in Charge of Radio Stations. You’ll Never Guess How It Went (GizModo, 17 May 2026) * WRIT-FM: A 24/7 AI-powered, music-forward radio station. Agents stock the music, write short hosted breaks, render those breaks with TTS, process listener messages, and keep multiple station streams running continuously. (GitHub) * Pod Save America: AI still has a lot to learn before it can put together a radio show. (Instagram, 16 May 2026) * OpenMCQ * Frontier Learning Lab AI Resource BaseCamp * Google Search as you know it is over (TechCrunch, 19 May 2026) * Talking Tours: An AI audio experiment touring cultural landmarks in Street View on Google Arts & Culture (Google Labs) * ‘The Worst Leak That I’ve Witnessed’: U.S. Cybersecurity Agency Leaves Its Digital Keys Out in Public on GitHub (Gizmodo, 18 May 2026) * Roomba inventor Colin Angle made robots useful. Now he wants to make them lovable. (Business Insider, 12 May 2026) * Caitlin’s Geek of the Week: Claude Cowork and Skill * Wes’s Geek of the Week: Podcommons (GitHub) 🧭 Links We Did NOT Discuss * OpenAI and Khan Academy Made a Chatbot. What Can We Learn? (NY Times, 16 May 2026) #GiftLink * Introducing Googlebook, designed for Gemini Intelligence (Google Blog, 12 May 2026) * ISTE + ASCD Google AI Educator (Google, 13 May 2026) * Everything Announced at Google I/O 2026 (Wired, 19 May 2026) * Apple May Drop Base $599 MacBook Neo as Chip, DRAM Costs Climb (Apple Rumors, 9 May 2026) * San Diego mosque shooting reflects how online rhetoric, media depictions and political discourse contribute to increased Islamophobia (The Conversation, 19 May 2026) * ’HELLO BOSS’: Inside the Chinese Realtime Deepfake Software Powering Scams Around the World (404 Media, 7 May 2026) Episode 374 is also available on YouTube in two formats: Portrait mode optimized for mobile phones, and Landscape mode optimized for laptop / desktop computers! Get full access to EdTech Situation Room Podcast at edtechsr.substack.com/subscribe
May 7, 2026
EdTechSR Ep 373: Digitizing Local History
Welcome to episode 373 (”Digitizing Local History”) of the EdTech Situation Room from May 6, 2026, where technology news meets educational analysis. This week, Dr. Wesley Fryer (wesfryer.com) was joined by special guest Kern Kelley (www.kernkelley.com,) a K-12 technology integrator from China, Maine, who shared his students’ remarkable work digitizing 19th-century handwritten letters at the Levi Stewart Museum using AI transcription, photogrammetry, and vibe-coded tools. They also unpacked the dangers and superpowers of vibe coding — including a cautionary tale of an AI agent wiping a startup’s production database — and discussed a retracted ChatGPT education study as a lesson in AI research skepticism. The conversation also covered Google Home’s new Gemini voice assistant upgrade, Apple’s plans to let iOS 27 users choose their own AI model, an amateur’s AI-assisted solution to a 60-year-old math problem, and the growing role of media literacy in understanding AI-generated propaganda. Practical tools including CC by Google Labs, NotebookLM, ListenLater.net, and OfficeHours.global rounded out a rich hour of EdTech conversation. Our show was live-streamed and archived on YouTube Live via StreamYard.com and auto-archived to YouTube. We are now publishing from Substack too! Subscribe to us with your favorite podcast listening app, or directly on or youtube.com/@edtechSR. Follow our EdTechSR page on Facebook, mastodon.education/@edtechsr on Mastodon for updates, and join LIVE on Wednesday nights if you can. All show notes are available at edtechSR.com/links. 🔗 Links We Discussed * Vibe Coding Will Break Your Company (Forbes, 23 April 2026) * Cursor-Opus agent snuffs out startup’s production database (TheRegister, 27 Apr 2026) * Influential study touting ChatGPT in education retracted over red flags (ArsTechnica, 4 May 2026) * Google Home gets upgraded Gemini voice assistant and new camera controls (ArsTechnica, 5 May 2026) * Apple plans to make iOS 27 a Choose Your Own Adventure of AI models (TechCrunch, 5 May 2026) * An amateur just solved a 60-year-old math problem—by asking AI (Scientific American 4 April 2026) * Levi Stewart Private Library Museum * Levi Stewart Museum Artifacts * Spin a Spooky Story by Tony Vincent * CC, a Google Labs AI Productivity Agent (free) * Kern’s Geeks of the Week: ListenLater.net and officehours.global * Wes’ Geek of the Week: Memes, War and Propaganda (Slideshow and archived webinar video, Media Education Lab, 4 May 2026) 🧭 Links We Did NOT Discuss * There’s a cheaper way into Claude, and it starts with Google (MakeUseOf, 6 April 2026) * Indian med student rakes in thousands with AI-generated MAGA hottie (ArsTechnica, 22 April 2026) * The hidden cost of Google’s AI defaults and the illusion of choice (ArsTechnica, 30 Apr 2026) * Google highlights links from subscribed publications in new AI Overviews update (NiemanLab, 6 April 2026) * Dark Patterns are designed to trick you (and they’re all over the Web) (ArsTechnica, 28 Jul 2016) * How iPhone Violates Apple’s Accessibility Guidelines (Medium, 9 Jul 2018) * We spoke to the man making viral Lego-style AI videos for Iran. Experts say it’s powerful propaganda (BBC, 11 April 2026) * Iran, slopaganda, and the lego-inspired creator behind it all (Top Comment BBC Podcast, 11 April 2026) * ‘Vengeance for all’: How Iran’s Lego videos won narrative war against Trump (Al Jazeera, 17 April 2026) * The clandestine network smuggling Starlink tech into Iran to beat internet blackout (BBC, 2 May 2026) Episode 373 is also available on YouTube in two formats: Portrait mode optimized for mobile phones, and Landscape mode optimized for laptop / desktop computers! This Substack version (syndicated to other podcasting platforms) was edited using Descript.com to remove “filler words!” Get full access to EdTech Situation Room Podcast at edtechsr.substack.com/subscribe
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