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April of 2019 marks 10 years since I bought the domain name “emergingedtech. com” and started posting here

Questions, Ideas, and Rich Activities Ready to Use to Dig Into Current Events and Explore Them With Your Students Every day we are assailed by stories about the world around us. News media come at us from the web, television, social media, print, and the conversations around us

Informative, inspiring, or just plain interesting education and digital technology content from across the web, posted on Twitter over the past week and collected here to share with our blog readers. This week in the wrap … aligning PBL with standards and curriculum, as technological innovation accelerates at an ever-increasing rate education struggles to keep pace with the rate of change and skills development required by employers, explore numerous ways colleges are putting AR to use, a municipality employs a robot to collect library books, take a look at the behemoth that is SNHU led by Paul LeBlanc, and more to explore. Five K-12 technologists named 2019 ‘NextGen: Emerging EdTech Leaders' https://edscoop.com/five-k-12-technologists-named-nextgen-emerging-edtech-leaders/ Meet the English Professor Creating The Billion-Dollar College Of The Future https://www.chronicle.com/article/Digital-Distraction-Is-a/246074 Collaborative, multi-univ course on democratic erosion taught across 20+ colleges in US, Israel, Philippines helps students take step back from alarmist headlines and be encouraged by strength of US democracy https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2019/03/06/looking-abroad-increases-optimism-about-our-democracy-us-opinion

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