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

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