Word of the Day: tectonic
This word has appeared in 75 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year. Can you use it in a sentence?
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…
Vrunk Clothing Redefining Urban Fashion with a Statement
In the ever-evolving world of streetwear, few brands oversee to capture the pith of urban culture as successfully as Vrunk Clothing. From its particular plans to its unashamed demeanor, Vrunk has rapidly set up itself as a imposing player in the mold industry. With its strong approach to mold, Vrunk Clothing has not as it…
Pitting Learning Styles Against Dual Coding
By Megan SumerackiWhen creating content and materials for the Learning Scientists website, we try to include many different types of forms (NOT because of Learning Styles, but because of preferences, and diversity in the type of media an individual can consume!). To that end, I’ve created blog versions of some bite-size research podcast episodes in…
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…
Hits and Misses in 2022 – Learning Systems Edition
Hits. These are the capabilities, ideas, components, even messaging that scored well in 2022. Some are truly the “score”, that will go forward in 2023, to I believe not just imitators, in one case, and I would be one who would follow suit, then there are “scores” which bounced off the crossbar or off another…
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What is JavaScript used for?
For the past eight consecutive years, JavaScript has been the most commonly used programming language by developers who responded to Stack Overflow's annual survey. The language's popularity stems largely from its versatility.While originally designed for front-end development, JavaScript's extensive list of associated libraries and frameworks have extended its utility. Now, you can use it for…
How to Build a Data Science Portfolio
A lot of us, data fans, are trying to launch data science careers, and we do not initially have work experience. In fact, we are looking for a first data science role so we can check off the work experience requirement that is listed in most data science job postings. To get unstuck from this…
Grammys, L.A. Fires and Longevity: Students React to the News
Would you want to live forever?The thing that is so precious about life is the fact that it’s not forever — you get an unpredictable amount of time to make a difference on this earth before you cross over. I, like many others, would rather live a short and fulfilling life than a long and…
Test Km Seminar
Introduction This assignment is going to shade more light on greatest dreams in my life. Apart from that, the assignment will also highlight the contribution that I want to make to my family and community. I will also talk about the best way to harness and distribute the revenue gotten from the natural resources…
Vocabulary in Context: Flying Cars
It was sleek, cone-shaped, a little confusing — like something Hollywood would give a sci-fi villain for a quick getaway. It wasn’t a helicopter. And it wasn’t an airplane. It was a between the two, with a curved hull, two small wings, and eight spinning rotors lined up across its nose and tail.
Dolly’s Donation
Students in U.S. high schools can get free digital access to The New York Times until Sept. 1, 2021.In April, the singer Dolly Parton donated $1 million to help fund research for a coronavirus vaccine. Last week, after Moderna announced its progress on a vaccine, legions of Ms. Parton’s fans have credited her with helping…
Past Stories
Retrieval Practice and Stress
School can be stressful, and 2020 has been a particularly stressful year for many of us. So, for this week’s blog, I thought I would write about retrieval practice and stress. Fortunately, I get to share some good news! Prior research has shown that acute stress can hinder our ability to retrieve information. Acute stress is…
5 facts that will surprise you about the future of work
An era of change in the workforce is well and truly upon us. The arrival of the Fourth Industrial Revolution means that the careers we once worked towards, or are working towards, are undergoing rapid change. But don’t panic just yet. Despite the influx of intelligent tech, The Definitive Guide to Future-Proofing Your Career, developed by Open Universities…
Film Club: ‘The Journey of a 9/11 Tree’
2. After watching, think about these questions:What questions do you still have?What connections can you make between this film and your own life or experience? Why? Does this film remind you of anything else you’ve read or seen? If so, how and why?3. An additional challenge | Respond to the essential question at the top…
Teenagers in The Times: October 2021
Here is the October edition of Teenagers in The Times, a roundup of the news and feature stories about young people that have recently appeared across sections of NYTimes.com. We publish a new edition on the first Thursday of each month.For ideas about how to use Teenagers in The Times with your students, please see…
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…
Hug
Use your imagination to write the opening of a short story or poem inspired by this illustration, or describe a memory from your own life that this image makes you think of.Tell us in the comments, and then read the related essay to learn more.Students 13 and older in the United States and Britain, and…