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.
How To Do Project-Based Learning That Connects To Standards And Curriculum
http://ajjuliani.com/how-to-do-project-based-learning-that-connects-to-standards-and-curriculum/
5 ways augmented reality apps are changing the game on college campuses
https://www.ecampusnews.com/2019/04/02/augmented-reality-apps-changing-game-college-campuses/
The future of work is a race between education and technology, and one’s not keeping up
https://www.smartcompany.com.au/startupsmart/opinion/future-work-education-technology/
Google Slides Now Has Native Support for Audio! Finally!
https://www.freetech4teachers.com/2019/04/google-slides-now-has-native-support.html
Congrats to all of these awesome women! Five K-12 technologists named 2019 ‘NextGen: Emerging EdTech Leaders'
https://edscoop.com/five-k-12-technologists-named-nextgen-emerging-edtech-leaders/
3D Printing - 5 Anticipated Breakthroughs to Watch
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/3d-printing-5-anticipated-breakthroughs-watch-peter-diamandis/
Meet the English Professor Creating The Billion-Dollar College Of The Future
https://www.forbes.com/sites/susanadams/2019/03/28/meet-the-english-professor-creating-the-billion-dollar-college-of-the-future/
Schools Teach ‘Cyber Hygiene' to Combat Phishing, Identity Theft https://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2018/03/07/schools-teach-cyber-hygiene-to-combat-phishing.html
Digital Distraction Is a Problem Far Beyond the Classroom. But Professors Can Still Help.
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
Meet BookBot: Mountain View library’s newest robot helper
https://www.siliconvalley.com/2019/03/09/meet-bookbot-mountain-view-librarys-newest-robot-helper/
