Edtech Situation Room By @techsavvyteach & @wfryer

Welcome to episode 353 (“Chatbots and Safeguards”) of the EdTech Situation Room from June 11, 2025, where technology news meets educational analysis. This week, Dr. Jason Neiffer (aicentrist.com) and Dr. Wesley Fryer (wesfryer.com) open with context on the live show and summer schedules before diving into the week’s biggest debates, starting with Apple’s WWDC: not a “ground-shaking” year, but still a polished, integrated slate of updates—complete with keynote-style visual summaries that double as classroom exemplars for storytelling and infographics—and a candid take on why “Apple Intelligence,” Vision Pro, and even the under-loved Freeform whiteboarding app land differently across mixed device ecosystems in schools (Mac/Windows/ChromeOS) and organizations. They contrast Apple’s cautious AI posture with practical educator workflows: Jason demos Gemini Deep Research to generate buyer’s-guide dossiers right inside Google Docs, then compares results with Perplexity’s new Labs feature that spins up shareable, cod