Latest #highered enrollment data from @NSClearinghouse :

nscresearchcenter.org/current-term-e…

#thread "Total postsecondary enrollment fell to 16.2 million this spring, marking a one-year decline of 4.1 percent or 685,000 students...
Following a 3.5 percent drop last spring, postsecondary institutions have lost nearly 1.3 million students since spring 2020."

In three hours I'm very excited to host a brilliant game designer, who will speak with us about how to create fine educational games.

A couple of things you should know about this:

#FTTE

https://twitter.com/BryanAlexander/status/1521214391840038914

First, @continuities just built a game for Google. It teaches players about how quantum computers work. It's a lot of fun, offers a lot of cutting-edge knowledge, and is hard to stop playing:
quantumai.google/education/theq…

#FTTE

Business Insider: Biden should cancel student debt for all borrowers: attorneys general.
businessinsider.com/biden-should-c…

via @GoogleNews @googlenews A few things to note here:

These tend to be blue states. New York, Hawaii, Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, New Mexico, Puerto Rico, and Washington.

Disturbing report on heart damage from #COVID19 .
Key finding: heart problems were able to hit any infected people, not just those with comorbidities.

publichealth.jhu.edu/2022/covid-and… "people who did not have any heart problems start with, were athletic, did not have a high BMI, were not obese, did not smoke, did not have kidney disease or diabetes—even in people who were previously healthy and had no risk factors or problems with the heart..."

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@roxannriskin is a genius with (among other things) screen grabs:

#FTTE

https://twitter.com/roxannriskin/status/1507060169519284232

@roxannriskin Question about partnering with Solid or web3c.

#FTTE

What might #Web3 mean for higher education? How can or should we connect colleges and universities to DAOs + blockchain?

In 20 minutes join the Future Trends Forum community as we host @TheTechRabbi to explore:

shindig.com/login/event/we…
#FTTE @TheTechRabbi @TheTechRabbi mentions his web3 DAO for educators. To help educators expand their impact while being rewarded for it.

#FTTE

Starting in 16 minutes: how did higher education become so financialized? And how might that change?

Join professor Charlie Eaton on the Future Trends Forum today to explore:

shindig.com/login/event/ea…

#FTTE As a quick update, here's one estimate of the size of student loans, from a Federal Reserve bank.

$1,748,851,870,000.

fred.stlouisfed.org/series/SLOAS

#FTTE

Here's the new Education Secretary's speech about his priorities.

A few preliminary notes on the higher ed section:
ed.gov/news/speeches/…
#Thread
1/n Emphasis on ROI for college degrees:
"we must transform education beyond high school so that it works for everybody, and so that it leads to well-paying, rewarding careers. "

2/n

There's a fascinating and at times depressing sketch of campuses responding to Delta at @insidehighered this morning:

insidehighered.com/news/2021/09/2… @insidehighered "Colleges without mandates -- located in different geographical regions -- include Pennsylvania State University, which as of Monday reported a 67 percent student vaccination rate..."

Just 2/3rds.

Flying in the US gives me a sense of a nation struggling to keep going. Flailing, not advancing. It feels like an exhausted country waiting for something better.

Gearing up for tonight's ed tech seminar.
The topic: VR, AR, XR.

Most of what I say boils down to go follow @DigitalBodies @mayaig @emorycraig @DigitalBodies @mayaig @emorycraig Other topics I've set out for XR:
-ethics
-scaffolding learning
-building community in these spaces
-users as creators

Also an interesting museum case study.

@gsdiment This is terrible.

All right, I'll share some updated data. @gsdiment Where does the #pandemic stand today?

Let me offer some current stats.

Thread.

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I wanted to share some quick thoughts about one aspect of the #Cuomo story.

It's about information literacy.

Specifically, it's about reading vs tv watching.

(1/n) I've been seeing so many Democrats suddenly realize that #Cuomo is a terrible person.

As a native New Yorker, politics junkie, and person of the left, I've been wondering why it took them so long.

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We are coming to the last few minutes of today's #COVedStories chat.

Looking back through our conversation, I'm impressed by how much ground you all covered. I'd like to thank everyone who participated and contributed to today's #COVedStories , like:

@liztekkie @joefromkenyon @mcjsa @RFaerberovaska @darlingbec @dparker_CU @ejfourni @vwaskiewicz @readywriting
@petersonandrew @Mark_Rush
@DrSturg @clarkshahnelson

It's 1 pm ET, which means the first #COVedStories has begun.

Greetings to everyone in the instructional design and ed tech space! Here's our plan.

Over the next few hours I'll share questions about your experience during the pandemic. The fine @gu_ldt faculty, staff, and students put these together.

They include:
-the shift to remote learning
-equity and social justice
-data
-innovation

#COVedStories

Beth Benedix: liberal arts campuses suffer from a branding problem.
They need to co-brand w/ other LACs.

#FTTE ...cobranding along lines of operations, like income-sharing agreements.

#FTTE

So the CDC has a new study about #highereducation and #COVID19 .

Listen closely.

#thread First, CDC links pandemic spread with f2f campuses:

"university counties with in-person instruction (n = 79) experienced a 56% increase in incidence, comparing the 21-day periods before and after classes started."

56%!

DC mayor:
-curfew is on
-DC police are establishing a perimeter
-Virginia + Maryland police deploying "to regain control of the US Capitol"

#USCapitol DC mayor:
-New Jersey, Baltimore police helping out

#USCapitol

Biden is now speaking.

This is chaos from a small number of extremists, a mob, bordering on sedition. Biden calls on Trump to go on national tv and call for an end to the "siege."

Images coming from the #USCapitol riots: More images from the #USCapitol riots:

nytimes.com/live/2021/01/0…

Listening to a Senate hearing on opening universities up for in person instruction:
help.senate.gov/hearings/covid… Key point: Purdue's president says any student, staff, or faculty member who doesn't want to be on campus can learn/teach/work remotely.

Looks like fall 2020 is HyFlex.