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: epitome
This word has appeared in 210 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…
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: inadvertently
inadvertently ˌi-nəd-ˈvər-tᵊnt lē adverb: without knowledge or intention_________The word inadvertently has appeared in 254 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year, including on July 26 in “Pop Smoke’s Second Posthumous Album, ‘Faith,’ Hits No. 1” by Joe Coscarelli:Pop Smoke, born Bashar Jackson, once a leader of Brooklyn’s rising drill movement, was killed last…
4 In-Demand Cybersecurity Skills That Will Help Get You Hired
There are an estimated 700,000 open cybersecurity jobs in the United States — and you might have the skills necessary to fill one of them. As tech continues to transform our lives, more people are needed to defend these technologies and keep up with their advancements, says Okey Obudulu, Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) for…
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The Importance of the Right Questions in Teaching
In this post Dylan Wiliam, lead educator on Assessment for Learning in STEM Teaching, discusses how the right questions at the right time make a big difference in the classroom. When I was teaching full-time, the decision I made most often every day was this: “Do I need to go over this one more time,…
Can You Be Happy Without Friends? (Millennial Study)
Millennials were dubbed the loneliness generation by a new YouGov study. Can millennials still be happy if they’re alone? Listen to Laurie Santos, who teaches The Science of Well-Being at Yale and on Coursera. She describes how important friendship is to overall happiness and tips on overcoming loneliness. Want to hear more from Laurie? Enroll…
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 Graph? | April 14, 2021
Students in U.S. high schools can get free digital access to The New York Times until Sept. 1, 2021.One would expect that when health care expenditures increase, life expectancy would increase too. But, for 2000 to 2017, this relationship has not been consistent globally.After looking closely at the graph above (or at this full-size image),…
144 Picture Prompts to Inspire Student Writing
We’ve been publishing our Picture Prompts series four days a week since 2016. These short, accessible, image-driven prompts invite students to create short stories, poems and memoirs; share experiences from their lives; analyze illustrations, graphs and charts; and weigh in on hot-button issues.Here, we’ve rounded up all the Picture Prompts we published for the 2019-20…
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Have You Ever Had a Memorable Encounter in Your City or...
Have you ever had a strange, funny or memorable chance encounter?Maybe you bumped into a friend or a stranger at a candy store, in a skate park, in a classroom or online, like in a video game chat?In “Then I Felt a Tap on My Shoulder,” Grace Kim writes about an unexpected interaction with a…
Authentic Social Media?
“BeReal was pitched as Gen Z’s safe haven from the artifice of social media. For some, authenticity only proved interesting for so long,” a recent Times article reports.What are your thoughts on that statement? Do you — or did you — use BeReal? Do you think the app is “over”? What other social media platforms,…
How to Make the Audio in Your Projects Sound Better
Tired of tinny sound, echoes, inaudible dialogue or just bad audio in your home recording efforts? The popularity of social-media video and podcasts has led to a variety of affordable microphones, software and other tools for creating better-quality audio for personal projects. Even if you don’t plan to start a podcast, understanding digital audio a…
Word of the Day: umbrage
This word has appeared in 58 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…
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…