This Week in Edtech with Ben Kornell, 6/19/22

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Guest Charles Schilling, President, Enterprise Business - US, Europe & Canada @ Emeritus

Topics this week:

1. Teacher Shortages at the End of the School Year
   • Overworked and underappreciated, teachers are burning out
   • Cardona: Americans Shouldn't be Surprised by Teacher Shortage
2. Work-Based Learning
   • Google partners with Figma to bring design tools to student Chromebooks
   • The Uncertain Pathway from Youth to a Good Job
3. Metaverse/VR?
   • What Will Learning in the Metaverse Look Like?
   • Meet the Metaverse: A New Frontier in Virtual Learning
4. Prescient/Sentient AI
   • Google Sidelines Engineer Who Claims Its A.I. Is Sentient
   • No, Google's AI is not sentient
5. Student Loans and The Value of College
   • U.S. Closer to Canceling All Federal Student Loan Debt? 
   • Biden Officials Hint At Another Extension, Potentially Tied To Student Loan Forgiveness
   • Student-Loan Forgiveness Will Help Narrow America’s Racial Wealth Gap, But Others Call It ‘Costly And Ineffective’
   • As Student Engagement Falls, Colleges Wonder: ‘Are We Part of the Problem?’
6. Funding + M&A
   • CareAcademy, Papercup, Kinside, Cloverleaf, Gomycode, Exprto, Metacrafters.io