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Welcome to episode 368 (“The OpenClaw Warning”) of the EdTech Situation Room from February 4, 2026, where technology news meets educational analysis. This week, Dr. Jason Neiffer ( aicentrist.com ) and Dr. Wesley Fryer ( wesfryer.com ) dive into the burgeoning world of agentic AI, highlighting the experimental "OpenClaw" tool while issuing a stark warning about the security risks inherent in autonomous AI agents. They also examine the precarious state of local journalism and its vital role in community cohesion. The discussion features a live look at the powerful new integration of Google's NotebookLM into Gemini, showcasing how educators can leverage curated "knowledge oracles" to generate source-grounded instructional materials. Additional topics include the intersection of gaming culture and mainstream media literacy via the Angry Planet podcast and a passionate defense of the humanities and competitive debate as essential skills for the AI era. Our show was live-streamed and archived on YouTube Live via StreamYard.com and auto-archived to YouTube. We are now publishing from Substack too! Subscribe to us with your favorite podcast listening app, or directly on or www.youtube.com/@edtechSR . Follow our EdTechSR page on Facebook , mastodon.education/@edtechsr on Mastodon for updates, and join LIVE on Wednesday nights if you can. All show notes are available at edtechSR.com/links . 🔗 Links We Discussed * [PODCAST] Online Culture Is the Whole Culture (Angry Planet, 30 Jan 2026) * “Conspiracies and Culture Wars” Media Literacy Inquiry Project (Wes Fryer) * Collar cams offer a bear’s eye view into the lives of grizzlies on Alaska’s desolate North Slope (AP, 2 Feb 2026) Local TV and radio at a crossroads (Peter Vogel, The BC Catholic, 28 Jan 2026) * Podcast393: Reflections on UnPlug’d 2012 with David Truss & Gail Lovely https://www.speedofcreativity.org/2012/08/13/podcast393-reflections-on-unplugd-2012-with-david-truss-gail-lovely/ * ds106 radio * Powell Tribune (Wyoming) * Daily Interlake News (Montana, via Peggy George) * kgez.com (Kalispell, MT - via Peggy George) * KMAN Radio (Manhattan, Kansas) * Day of AI (a program developed at MIT RAISE in partnership with the i2 Learning Foundation) * [VIDEO] Watch: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei From World Economic Forum | WSJ (32 min) * Hard Fork [PODCAST] Can You Teach Claude to be ‘Good’? | Meet Anthropic Philosopher Amanda Askell (23 Jan 2026) * Don’t Install OpenClaw. But Keep a Close Eye on It. (Jason @ Field Notes at the FLL; 2 February 2026) * The buzz over AI agents (NPR Here and Now; 2 February 2026) * Moltbook is the newest social media platform — but it’s just for AI bots (NPR ATC; 4 February 2026) * MoltBook.com (AI agent social network) * Take your notebooks further by adding NotebookLM as a source in the Gemini app (Google Workspace Updates; 27 January 2026) * Jason’s Geek of the Week: Meetily (Local AI Meeting Tool) * Wes’ Geeks of the Week:: 2026 Frost Forward Online Conference Registration - [PODCAST] AI in Education: Jeffrey Riley on AI Literacy, Teachers, and the Future of Learning (The Teacher’s Forum, David Harris, 3 Feb 2026) - Google Account 3rd Party App Authorizations 🧭 Links We Did NOT Discuss * Anthropic and Teach For All launch global AI training initiative for educators (Anthropic Blog, 21 Jan 2026) * Claude for Education * Gem and NotebookLM Workflow (Miguel Guhlin, 1 Feb 2026) * Claude is a space to think (Anthropic blog, 4 Feb 2026) * Customize Cowork with plugins (Claude Blog; 30 January 2026) * Google’s Gemini app has surpassed 750M monthly active users (TechCrunch; 4 February 2026) * The new era of browsing: Putting Gemini to work in Chrome (The Keyword from Google) * Rice University students create ICE tracker as hundreds protest in Houston (The Center Square, 31 Jan 2026) Episode 368 is also available on YouTube in two formats: Portrait mode optimized for mobile phones , and Landscape mode optimized for laptop / desktop computers ! This Substack version (syndicated to other podcasting platforms) was edited using Descript.com to remove “filler words!” Get full access to EdTech Situation Room Podcast at edtechsr.substack.com/subscribe