Edtech Situation Room By @techsavvyteach & @wfryer

Welcome to episode 165 of the EdTech Situation Room from February 13, 2020, where technology news meets educational analysis. This week Jason Neiffer (@techsavvyteach) and Wesley Fryer (@wfryer) discussed changes to "backup files" in Google Drive and the demise of Andy Rubin's "Essential" Android phone hardware company. After another consecutive week of shout outs to the "EdTech Takeout Episode 71," we discussed the requirement for YouTube creators to mark all videos "made for kids" which fit Google's guidelines, and provided some analysis on the demise of "branded accounts" on YouTube for GSuite for Education (GSFE) domains. On the topic of media literacy, the recent podcast episode "Breaking the Truth: A Conversation with Samuel Woolley" on the show "Power 3.0 Podcast: Authoritarian Resurgence, Democratic Resilience" was discussed, along with hesitation (on the part of some elementary teachers) to "turn students loose on Google" to research topics in school. On the Apple front, Siri's new ability to answer