youtube-nocookie.com and open.spotify.com, or use the options below.This week on TechCheck for grades 9–12: what Common Sense Media's 4,000-prompt audit found in ChatGPT for Teens, OpenAI's response, and who funds the auditors; how attackers who compromised the .gh, .sl and .as registry operators passed certificate authorities' DNS checks to get genuine certificates for Google domains; a University of Maryland randomized trial where being offered a GPT-4o study assistant was linked to grades about 4 points lower; New York's unsealed allegations about TikTok A/B tests and a 'placebo' Refresh button; and the Nobel Prize in Physics for Francis Halzen and IceCube's 5,000+ sensors in Antarctic ice. Includes the 988 crisis line. CS-, debate- and career-ready. IN THIS EPISODE
A reusable 9–12 worksheet and a copy-your-own Google Form. Same template every week, so students learn the routine once.
5 quick polls, a story-of-the-week vote, and a 4-question quiz. Answers are anonymous and count toward your class on the grade-band leaderboard. This one has closed — results and answers are up.
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