EdTechSR Ep 373: Digitizing Local History

Welcome to episode 373 (”Digitizing Local History”) of the EdTech Situation Room from May 6, 2026, where technology news meets educational analysis. This week, Dr. Wesley Fryer ( wesfryer.com ) was joined by special guest Kern Kelley ( ,) a K-12 technology integrator from China, Maine, who shared his students’ remarkable work digitizing 19th-century handwritten letters at the Levi Stewart Museum using AI transcription, photogrammetry, and vibe-coded tools. They also unpacked the dangers and superpowers of vibe coding — including a cautionary tale of an AI agent wiping a startup’s production database — and discussed a retracted ChatGPT education study as a lesson in AI research skepticism. The conversation also covered Google Home’s new Gemini voice assistant upgrade, Apple’s plans to let iOS 27 users choose their own AI model, an amateur’s AI-assisted solution to a 60-year-old math problem, and the growing role of media literacy in understanding AI-generated propaganda. Practical tools including CC by Google Labs , NotebookLM , ListenLater.net , and OfficeHours.global rounded out a rich hour of EdTech conversation. 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!

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EdTechSR Ep 373: Digitizing Local History is an episode from EdTech Situation Room by @techsavvyteach & @wfryer by @techsavvyteach & @wfryer.

This episode is 59:44 long.

This episode was published on May 7, 2026.

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