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Welcome to episode 367 (“ Vibe Coding With Claude ”) of the EdTech Situation Room from January 21, 2026 , where technology news meets educational analysis. This week, Dr. Jason Neiffer ( aicentrist.com ) and Dr. Wesley Fryer ( wesfryer.com ) discuss the transformative power of “vibe coding,” with Wes sharing his experience using Claude Code to build a sophisticated 1,400-line PHP project for personal news automation. Jason demonstrates a powerful new workflow that integrates NotebookLM sources directly into Gemini to create pedagogically-informed instructional texts. The duo also explores Anthropic’s newly released AI Constitution , Google’s rollout of Personal Intelligence for Gmail and Drive , and reflections from the FETC conference on the urgent need for structured AI professional development for educators. 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 * Episode 9: From hidden data to insight: the power of vibecoding (by NotebookLM, Digital Digging by Hank Van Ess, 17 Jan 2026) * Paywall article: Using AI to find hidden data sources (Digital Digging by Hank Van Ess, 17 Jan 2026) * Claude Code for writers (Platformer, Casey Newton, 15 Jan 2026) * Move Over, ChatGPT (Atlantic, 14 Jan 2026) * Claude’s new constitution (Anthropic, 21 January 2026) * Gemini introduces Personal Intelligence (14 January 2026) * mermaid.ai (“Build complex visuals from text and data in seconds”) * Jason’s Geek of the Week: Kortex Chrome PLugin * Wes’ Geek of the Week: news.wesfryer.com 🧭 Links We Did NOT Discuss * A new direction for students in an AI world: Prosper, prepare, protect (Brookings, 17 Jan 2026) * Comic-Con Bans AI Art After Artist Pushback (404 Media; 21 January 2026) * OpenAI says its data centers will pay for their own energy and limit water usage (The Verge; 21 January 2026) * Google Releases Data Tables for NotebookLM (NotebookLM on Twitter/X, 14 Jan 2026) * Alaska’s court system built an AI chatbot. It didn’t go smoothly. (NBC News, 3 Jan 2026) * Amazon’s Ring to partner with Flock, a network of AI cameras used by ICE, feds, and police (TechCrunch, 15 Oct 2025) * Hacker Dressed As Pink Power Ranger Dismantles Racist Websites Live on Stage (PC Magazine, 6 Jan 2026) * Iran’s Internet Shutdown Mistake Exposes Threats To U.S. And Israel (Forbes, 17 Jan 2026) * Grok Is Generating Sexual Content Far More Graphic Than What’s on X (Wired, 7 Jan 2026) * When an Ad Triggers a Full Account Crisis (Lucy Gray, 20 Jan 2026) * How Wikipedia Will Survive in the Age of AI (With Wikipedia’s CTO Selena Deckelmann) (404 Media, 20 Jan 2026) Episode 367 is also available on YouTube in two formats: Portrait mode optimized for mobile phones , and Landscape mode optimized for laptop / desktop computers ! Get full access to EdTech Situation Room Podcast at edtechsr.substack.com/subscribe