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Season 3: Episode 22 - Insights from ISTE and AI News Headlines
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Summary
In this episode, Maurie and Jim Beasley discuss their experiences at the ISTE conference, focusing on the role of AI in education. They highlight innovative student projects that utilize AI, Google's recent push into the educational space with free AI tools, and the implications of federal funding freezes on schools. The conversation also explores the challenges presented by CloudStrike's new web crawling policies and their impact on content creators, particularly smaller companies. The episode concludes with reflections on the conference and the importance of human effort in content creation.
Chapters
00:00 Introduction to ISTE and AI in Education
03:00 Innovative Student Projects Using AI
05:55 Google's Major AI Push in Education
08:59 Classroom Management and AI Tools
12:00 Federal Funding Freeze and Its Impact on Education
16:56 Microsoft's Changes and Industry Jokes
18:17 The Blue Screen of Death: A New Era
19:00 Understanding CloudStrike and Its Impact
20:10 AI Crawlers and the Pay-Per-Crawl Model
22:39 The Disruption of Web Crawling and Content Access
24:43 The Future of Content Creation and AI
26:32 The Disparity Between Big Companies and Startups
30:13 Reflections from the ISTE Conference
32:05 Maurie's New Book: A Teacher's Perspective