youtube-nocookie.com and open.spotify.com, or use the options below.This week on TechCheck for grades 9–12: Google's Gemini in Classroom rolled out to students of all ages with the setting on by default, and we unpack opt-in versus opt-out when the users are minors; California's governor signed a 13-bill package including a ban on addictive feeds for under-16s, Adam's Law for companion chatbots, and a four-year pause on chatbot toys; Florida's attorney general alleges Netflix logged billions of viewing interactions, including on Kids Profiles, while Netflix says the suit lacks merit; India's Supreme Court took up a petition arguing minors can't legally agree to a platform's terms of service; a nine-day cyberattack shut Springfield, Massachusetts' 66 schools and shows what incident response actually looks like; and NASA and IBM open-sourced a Moon-prospecting AI trained on two million images. 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.
6 quick polls, a story-of-the-week vote, and a 5-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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