Why the Future of Learning Starts with Building
Coding has always served two purposes: the intrinsic drive to build something, and the practical path to a lucrative career. Even the most passionate code aficionados don’t dream of variables or syntax — they want to make a website, a tool, a game. For years, the career upside was impossible to ignore. You could land a stable SWE job, bootstrap your own app, or join a buzzy…
Why the Future of Learning Starts with Building
Coding has always served two purposes: the intrinsic drive to build something, and the practical path to a lucrative career. Even the most passionate code aficionados don’t dream of variables or syntax — they want to make a website, a tool, a game. For years, the career upside was impossible to ignore. You could land a stable SWE job, bootstrap your own app, or join a buzzy…
Learn Four Techniques to Help You Prepare for the Unexpected
By Jane McGonigal, PhD, Director of Game Research and Development at the Institute for the Future and lead instructor of the Futures Thinking Specialization If the year 2020 has shown us anything so far, it’s that we all need to get better at expecting the unexpected. The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the way we work,…
Film Club: ‘Earthrise: 50 Years Since Apollo 8’
This is where we live. In space. On a marble fortified against bottomless blackness by a shell of air and color, fragile and miraculous as a soap bubble.In 1968, we Earthlings knew that already, sort of. But that abstract notion became visceral on Christmas Eve of that year. While scouting landing spots on the moon,…
Learning a New Language
Félicitations! You’ve decided to make one of your 2023 goals to learn a new language. Learning a new language is no easy feat. The good news is that it’s not impossible if you’re determined, put in the effort, set SMART goals for yourself, and sign up with a reputable learning platform to get you from…
What Is Your Reaction to the College Admissions Cheating Scandal?
Note: Students 13 and older are invited to comment here. Adults should post their comments elsewhere on NYTimes.com. On Tuesday, federal prosecutors charged 50 people in a brazen scheme to buy spots in the freshman classes at Yale, Stanford and other big name schools. Have you heard about the scandal? Watch the one-minute video above…
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Under the Covers, Reaching for the Alarm
Tell us a story, real or made up, that is inspired by this image.
Listen: ‘The Good Whale Podcast: Episode 1”
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The Impact of AI on L&D and Training: Latest Insight
In the past month or so, I recognize and see more and more of AI and how it will become so intertwined with any type of learning system, that what you – the vendor and you – the L&D, Training, CLO, HR professionals, plus C-Suite will drastically change. The question is whether you (the latter…
AIU Slides: Andragogy the best education for adults
Previous Next This series are dedicated to the Andragogy, that could be seen as a counterpart of pedagogy. This concept begin in 1833 and reappeared in 1921 as adult education. #andragogy #aiu #aiuslides #education #adulteducation
Why the Future of Learning Starts with Building
Coding has always served two purposes: the intrinsic drive to build something, and the practical path to a lucrative career. Even the most passionate code aficionados don’t dream of variables or syntax — they want to make a website, a tool, a game. For years, the career upside was impossible to ignore. You could land a stable SWE job, bootstrap your own app, or join a buzzy…
Call for Papers: Seventh Annual ACM Conference on Learning at Scale...
The 2020 Learning @ Scale (L@S) takes place on May 27 – 29, 2020 in Atlanta Georgia, at Georgia Tech Global Learning Center with a full workshop day on May 27, followed by two main conference days on May 28 – 29. At L@S the learning experience of students is placed in the center of…
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Word of the Day: apocryphal
apocryphal ə-ˈpä-krə-fəl adjective: being of questionable authenticity_________The word apocryphal has appeared in 37 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year, including on May 16 in the obituary “Jack Terricloth, Punk Rocker With a Cabaret Air, Dies at 50” by Ben Sisario:To old friends who met him backstage, he was Pete Ventantonio, a punk…
What Would You Like to Ask Your 40-Year-Old Self?
If you could go decades ahead in time and ask your 40-year-old self some questions, what would you ask? Why? Be as specific as you can. What questions would you have about how your life turned out? About the lives of loved ones? About local, national and world events? Inventions? Arts and culture?We pose this…
What’s Going On in This Graph? | Feb. 28, 2024
On Wednesday, Feb. 28, teachers from our collaborator, the American Statistical Association, will facilitate this discussion from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Eastern time.5. By Friday morning, March 1, we will reveal more information about the graph, including a free link to the article that includes this graph, at the bottom of this post. We…
Why the Future of Learning Starts with Building
Coding has always served two purposes: the intrinsic drive to build something, and the practical path to a lucrative career. Even the most passionate code aficionados don’t dream of variables or syntax — they want to make a website, a tool, a game. For years, the career upside was impossible to ignore. You could land a stable SWE job, bootstrap your own app, or join a buzzy…
What’s Going On in This Picture? | April 1, 2019
Students 1. After looking closely at the image above (or at the full-size image), think about these three questions: • What is going on in this picture? • What do you see that makes you say that? • What more can you find? 2. Next, join the conversation by clicking on the comment button and…
Why the Future of Learning Starts with Building
Coding has always served two purposes: the intrinsic drive to build something, and the practical path to a lucrative career. Even the most passionate code aficionados don’t dream of variables or syntax — they want to make a website, a tool, a game. For years, the career upside was impossible to ignore. You could land a stable SWE job, bootstrap your own app, or join a buzzy…