EdTechSR Ep 315 Debriefing Our AI PlayDate

Podcast from January 3, 2024

Check out our Episode 315 from January 3, 2024! Here are all the links we discussed in the show:

1. Subscribe to our EdTechSR Substack Newsletter!

2. EdTech Situation Room Listener Survey: wfryer.me/edtechsr

3. Follow @edtechSR on Twitter!

4. Audio podcast feed (Subscribe with iTunes or Stitcher)

5. Video version on YouTube

6. Check out our video podcast feed and subscribe to our YouTube Channel (episodes also in this YouTube playlist)

7. Jason Neiffer (Mastodon: mastodon.cloud/@neif – Twitter: @techsavvyteach) – blog: blog.ncce.org

8. Wes Fryer (Mastodon: mastodon.cloud/@wfryer) – wesfryer.com/after

9. Archived resources from 27 Dec 2023 PlayDate

10. 20 Jan 2024: In-person EdTech PlayDate - AI Edition (Charlotte, NC)

11. Report: Surface Pro 10 and Laptop 6 Are Coming in Spring 2024 With Intel and Qualcomm Chips (Thurott; 28 December 2023)

12. Youth suicide rates rose 62% from 2007 to 2021: ‘People feel hopeless,’ one recent grad says (CNBC, 5 Dec 3023)

13. To Minimize Harms and Maximize Benefits of Social Media to Adolescent Health, New Report Recommends Setting Industrywide Standards, New Protections Against Harassment (National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, 13 Dec 2022)

14. A New Kind of AI Copy Can Fully Replicate Famous People. The Law is Powerless. (Politico, 30 Dec 2023)

15. Heather's Geeks of the Week: https://www.classcraft.com/ - https://mizou.com/ - https://snorkel.ai/

16. Jason's Geeks of the Week: https://copilot.microsoft.com/ - Music Generator by Suno

17. Wes' Geeks of the Week: Chrome browser extension “Show YouTube Video Upload Date” and  “Breaking the Social Media Prism: How to Make Our Platforms Less Polarizing” by Chris Bail

Here are the links which made our show notes Google Doc, but we didn’t have time to discuss:

1. In case you missed it, ChatGPT rival 'Copilot' is now on iOS and Android (Mashable; 2 January 2024)

2. The Most Powerful Generative AI Text Tools of 2023 (Decrypt, 28 Dec 2023)

3. The New York Times Sues Microsoft, OpenAI for Copyright Infringement (Thurott; 27 December 2023)

4. As social media guardrails fade and AI deepfakes go mainstream, experts warn of impact on elections (AP News, 26 Dec 2023)

5. Vocabulary: Effective accelerationism (WikiPedia) via Hard Fork 15 Dec 2023

6. Experiment 1:500 chatbots read the news and discussed it on social media. Guess how that went. (Business Insider,14 Nov 2022)

7. Experiment 2: Amazon Review Summaries

8. Experiment 3: Minecraft Castle Build Challenge / Quest

9. Google settles $5 billion privacy lawsuit over tracking people using 'incognito mode' (ABC News, 29 Dec 2023)

10. Japan to crack down on Apple and Google app store monopolies (Nikkei Asia, 27 Dec 2023)

11. AirTag saves Christmas, tracks down luggage stolen from Charlotte airport (Apple Insider, 29 Dec 2023)

12. Apple Just Broke a Tradition It Held for 12 Years (Mac Rumors; 1 Janaury 2024)

13. 3 new ways to check images and sources online (Google Blog “The Keyword,” 25 Oct 2023)

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