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.

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🔗 Links We Discussed

1. Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 (Claude News; 9 June 2026)

2. Apple’s WWDC 2026 Keynote (8 June 2026, 1 hour, 16 min)

3. 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)

4. How Deepfakes Tore a High School Apart (404Media, 21 May 2026)

5. Millions of Students Use i-Ready. But Many Parents View It as a Villain in the Ed Tech Fight. (Chalkbeat, 19 May 2026)

6. Google I/O 2026: All the News and Announcements You Probably Missed (CNET, 21 May 2026)

7. Inside a High School’s Deepfake Nightmare (Tech News Weekly, TWiT, 4 June 2026)

8. Google’s current AI lineup (as of June 2026)

   1. 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

   2. 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

   3. 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/

   4. 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

   5. 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/

   6. 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/

   7. 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

   8. 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

   9. 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

9. Jason’s Geeks of the Week: https://msty.ai/claw/ - MSTY Claw - Hermes Agent

10. 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

1. Introducing Gemma 4 12B: a unified, encoder-free multimodal model (Google Blog; 3 June 2026)

2. Ideogram Releases 4.0, Open Model (Ideogram)

3. 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)

4. 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)

5. Apple’s New Child Safety webpage

6. 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)