youtube-nocookie.com and open.spotify.com, or use the options below.This week on TechCheck for grades 6–8: Frederick County, Maryland's school board voted 6-1 to ban student generative AI from pre-K through 12th grade, weeks after a Gemini pilot; Minecraft Education's Velocity Prize lets ages 13-16 code their way to a hidden flag, capture-the-flag style; a real Clio, Michigan school email account was taken over to send phishing to parents; 13-year-old Raji Doshi used a computer model to tune her ocean-acidification invention and won the 3M Young Scientist Challenge; and Denmark introduced a bill giving people rights over deepfakes of their face and voice. Systems-thinking- and debate-ready. IN THIS EPISODE
A reusable 6–8 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.
Middle School Innovators
Apple and Spotify carry the full show; use the feed URL for a Grades 6–8-only subscription.
8 min 📺 🎧 This week on TechCheck for grades 6–8: Clover School District in South Carolina paused student access to most AI tools b…
8 min 📺 🎧 This week on TechCheck for grades 6–8: Common Sense Media rated ChatGPT for Teens 'Unacceptable Risk' after 4,000+ test …