Weekly Student News Quiz: N.B.A. Scandal, Halloween Candy, Chicago Rat Hole
Above is an image related to one of the news stories we followed this past week. Do you know what it shows? At the bottom of this quiz, you'll find the answer.Have you been paying attention to current events recently? See how many of these 10 questions you can get right.
35 Easy Resolutions to Kickstart Your Coding in 2025
It’s that time of year again — the time for making New Year’s resolutions! It can be tempting to set big, life-changing goals. But the loftiest resolutions are usually the first to be abandoned. This year, let’s resolve to make resolutions we can keep. Every major accomplishment requires a smaller first step. You can’t run…
From Istanbul to New York: Nejla Gul-Saglam’s Inspiring Path to Education...
When Turkish native Nejla Gul-Saglam began her journey in Computer Programming at Sakarya University, in Turkey, back in 2007, she didn’t yet know how many times her dreams would evolve—and be tested. Today, as a full-time engineering management professional, mother, and proud 2025 graduate of the Master of Engineering in Engineering Management from CU Boulder,…
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: ‘How an 11-Foot-Tall 3-D Printer Is Helping...
6. The article states, “Nearly any object can be printed in 3-D.” What object would you most like to see printed and why — whether for practical or fun reasons? What questions do you still have about the technology and its possibilities?7. Look at the photographs in the article: What do you notice and wonder…
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…
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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…
The Potential Harm of Learning Styles
By Carolina Kuepper-TetzelWe have discussed the learning styles myth in different blog posts and you can find all of our posts in this topic here. Briefly, the idea of learning styles is that if you assess the learning styles in students and then match instruction accordingly to their self-reported learning style, their performance will be…
Can You Avoid Burnout?
By Althea Need KaminskeIt’s January 2021! A new year and a fresh start. Given the general stress last year between the on-going COVID-19 pandemic and the switch online learning in order to avoid exposure to COVID-19, I think it’s safe to assume that most of us were feeling pretty burned out by the end of…
Word of the Day: presumptuous
This word has appeared in 25 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…
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Lesson of the Day: ‘Sneezing Dogs, Dancing Bees: How Animals Vote’
Find all our Lessons of the Day here.Lesson OverviewFeatured Article: “Sneezing Dogs, Dancing Bees: How Animals Vote” by Elizabeth Preston.The 2020 election is off to a rocky and complicated start. Many are wondering if there is a better way to elect a president.What comparative political lessons can we learn from the animal kingdom? While they…
What is front end?
If you're familiar with web development, you've probably heard reference to "the front end" — but what is it, exactly? Generally speaking, the front end is the user-facing part of a website. It's what you see when you type in something like "codecademy.com." But, of course, there's more to it than that.As Front-End Web Developer…
Sustainable Style: The Rise of the Broken Planet Hoodie
In the ever-evolving world of organize, certain pieces rise over their utilitarian reason and gotten to be over the top pictures of a social development. The Broken Planet Hoodie is one such thing, making from the underground streetwear scene to capture the creative imperativeness of a around the world store up of onlookers. With its…
What’s Going On in This Picture? | April 12, 2021
Students in U.S. high schools can get free digital access to The New York Times until Sept. 1, 2021.1. After looking closely at the image above (or at the full-size image), think about these three questions:2. Next, join the conversation by clicking on the comment button and posting in the box that opens on the…
Strategic Planning Free Course
The following course in Strategic Planning is provided in its entirety by Atlantic International University's "Open Access Initiative" which strives to make knowledge and...
Digest #150: How To Read An Academic Paper
3. QALMRI Instructions by Brosowsky and ParshinaQALMRI stands for Question, Alternatives, Logic, Method, Results, and Inferences and proposes guiding questions for each section of an academic paper and introduces a more elaborate approach to reading a scientific paper. While reading a specific section in the paper, try to obtain answers to the different guiding questions. This…