Weekly News Quiz for Students: Venezuela, Peace Deal, Oscar Nominations
How well did you follow the news this past week? How many of these 10 questions can you get right?
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…
Lesson of the Day: ‘A Poem (and a Painting) About the...
Lesson OverviewFeatured Article: “A Poem (and a Painting) About the Suffering That Hides in Plain Sight” by Elisa GabbertWith war looming, W.H. Auden stood in a museum and was inspired to write. The resulting poem, “Musée des Beaux Arts,” is one of the most famous ever written about a work of art. More than 80…
Piece together the physical world: Engineering at UniSA
If you’ve got big ideas and a keen interest in how things work, you might find a great career fit in engineering. In studying an Associate Degree in Engineering from the University of South Australia, you’ll be able to channel your energy into improving people’s everyday lives, as well as specialise in an area you’re…
What Is Your Passion?
What is the thing you love or know most about in the world? Would you want to become famous for it?
Instafame: Why influencers are good for business
Social media marketing has become vital for business in the digital era and Instagram influencers have become the perfect conduit between brands and consumers. Instagram is one of the most popular social media platforms in the world, with over 1 billion users accessing the platform every month. While it’s a great place to share and…
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Subway Wedding
Some couples are embracing the gritty, chaotic appeal of the subway system for their wedding ceremonies and receptions. Where might you want to get married someday?
How Much Do You Know About Sri Lanka?
Can you find Sri Lanka on a map? What else do you know about this South Asian island nation with about 22.5 million people?
What’s Going On in This Graph? | May 11, 2022
Note to Teachers: This graph is part of a larger unit on mental health, which also includes a lesson plan, a writing prompt and a film. Teachers, please preview these resources to make sure they are appropriate for your students. You can find alternative graphs in this index.Also, this is our final “What’s Going On…
Want a Machine Learning Job? You’ll Need To Know How Recommender...
Most of us have experienced the uncanny accuracy of recommender systems before. For example, you were online shopping for a new keyboard one day, and then haunted by ads for other keyboards on your Instagram feed for weeks. Perhaps you liked a funny TikTok of a pig, and now your For You Page is all…
How Much Do You Know About Mozambique?
Can you find Mozambique on a map? What else do you know about this African nation with about 30 million people?
Ask a Data Engineer: Warby Parker Edition 👓
Codecademy’s very own Nick Duckwiler (left) and Ryan Tuck from Warby Parker (right) in our office. (📷: Mitch Boyer) Last month, Codecademy and Warby Parker came together to work on a special Learn SQL from Scratch Capstone Project. It was during this time when I met Ryan Tuck, a Data Engineer at Warby, who played…
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What Are the Little Rituals That Keep You Going?
What routines, habits or practices do you do to stay grounded, happy and healthy?
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…
MOOCWatch 20: Coursera’s Acquisition; Udacity’s New CEO; Top 100 MOOCs of...
With many MOOC stories focussing on careers, this article written by a professor at Tsinghua University is a reminder that MOOCs can fill different roles in people’s lives. Even with the limitations of Google Translate, it’s an interesting read. Thanks to our newest team member Rui from China for this link. While MOOCs are often…
Teenagers on What Has Shaped Their Political Beliefs and Values
Ahead of the 2024 Election, we invited teens to explore their political identities and tell us how they have come to believe what they believe.
The game changers of e-learning, last 25 years
When I considered identifying the most significant impacts of online learning over the last 25 years, I realized it wasn’t as simple as its initial premise. Creating this list required me to look beyond just learning systems and content creators (formerly known as authoring tools). I had to consider other types of learning technology, content…
Weekly News Quiz for Students: Mask Mandate, Twitter Purchase, Plagiarism Case
Above is an image related to one of the recent news stories we've been following. Do you know what it shows? At the bottom of this quiz, you’ll find the answer. Our news quiz was on hiatus last week for spring break, so this week's quiz includes news from all of April. Have you been…