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!
