Ready for a deep dive into the latest AI tools and education headlines? In this special extended news episode, Vicki Davis shares 15 cutting-edge AI tools including Gemini's new video parsing capabilities, Claude Opus 4's powerful features, and Perplexity Labs' research tools, plus 15 critical news stories every educator needs to know. From AI ethics and security warnings to practical classroom applications, this episode delivers real classroom tech use insights you can implement immediately.

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I'm also including vocabulary and links at the show notes. This week's show includes the vocabulary:

smishing
vishing
multimodal conversational AI
deep fake
rage-bait cinema
LOTS (Living off Trusted Services) attack
Passkeys
Two-Factor Authentication (2FA)

This vocabulary and links to resources are included to help educate you and to give you a resource that you can use with students about this particular topic.

A Personal Update from Vicki

As school got out, my son got married and I had quite a few speeches here in Georgia, so I ended up with 2-3 weeks of news/tool content to share, so I just put them together on my radio show this week and for you on this longer-than-normal episode.

I appreciate the grace while I'm in the summer months and recovering and I hope you take care of yourself and recover as well. We need the rest so we can be our best! And stay tuned next week for some amazing ISTE 2025 episodes - whether you're going or not, I want you to see the cool things happening!

As always, I want you to feel included, informed, and helped to keep up in practical ways as things are changing.