Word of the Day: benign
This word has appeared in 181 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year. Can you use it in a sentence?
Film Club: ‘Madeleine’
4. Next, join the conversation by clicking on the comment button and posting in the box that opens on the right. (Students 13 and older are invited to comment, although teachers of younger students are welcome to post what their students have to say.)5. After you have posted, try reading back to see what others…
Word of the Day: clemency
This word has appeared in 201 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year. Can you use it in a sentence?
10 learner stories that will inspire you to code
All across our community, learners are doing amazing things with code. From students assembling the skills they need for the future to workers making huge leaps into technical careers, we’re constantly blown away by the stories we hear.Here are just a few of the things our learners have accomplished with code this past year. If…
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…
In 2019, Should You Learn Python or Javascript First?
Unsure which programming language you should learn first? Charles Severance, also known as Dr. Chuck, is a professor at the University of Michigan School of Information and has taught over one million students on Coursera about programming, coding, and technology. Below, Dr. Chuck talks about whether Python and Javascript are still worth learning in 2019,…
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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…
Word of the Day: sublime
sublime sə-ˈblīm adjective and verbadjective: of high moral or intellectual value; elevated in nature or styleadjective: worthy of adoration or reverenceadjective: inspiring aweadjective: lifted up or set highverb: change or cause to change directly from a solid into a vapor without first meltingverb: vaporize and then condense right back again_________The word sublime has…
Game design: Craft a world of your own
Video games have been around for decades – from arcade games, to Atari 2600, to the 2D classics on CD-ROM. Fast forward to 2019, and the gaming industry has come an impressively long way. With technological advances into highly-detailed 3D, people of all walks of life are becoming self-professed ‘gamers’. It only takes a quick…
9 tips to help you ace a whiteboard interview
Whiteboard interviews can be intimidating. You're put on the spot and asked to solve a technical problem without knowing anything about it beforehand. And if that wasn't enough, you also have to explain your solution to your interviewer.Still, whiteboard interviews are a crucial part of the hiring process. In the video below, Farish, a developer…
Thank you to Our 2024 Community!
Thank you to our guest bloggers and podcast interviewees! We’ve learned so much from your different perspectives and experiences and we’re proud to be able to share that with our readers. As Learning Scientists we, of course, love to talk about learning, but we also love getting to learn ourselves! (Have something interesting to share…
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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…
How to Online Business? Free Course
The following course in Online Business is provided in its entirety by Atlantic International University's "Open Access Initiative" which strives to make knowledge and...
The Value of Knowing Your Audience
References:(1) Beier, M. E., & Ackerman, P. L. (2005). Age, ability, and the role of prior knowledge on the acquisition of new domain knowledge: Promising results in a real-world learning environment. Psychology and aging, 20(2), 341.(2) Chi, M & Koeske, R. D. (1983). Network representation of child’s dinosaur knowledge. Developmental Psychology, 19(1), 29-39.(3) Recht, D. R., &…
Striking Out
What story could this image tell? Tell us about a memory from your own life that this illustration makes you think of — or use your imagination to write the opening of a short story or poem inspired by what you see. Post it in the comments, then read the related article to learn the…
Our 16th Annual Summer Reading Contest
Through the years, adults have told us over and over that participating in this contest has made their students both more aware of and more interested in what’s going on in the world. Many see it as a low-stakes way to help teenagers start building a news-reading habit.And, too, at a time when some educators…
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…